| My art in general serves as a realm of peace where I can scape my experience as a disabled person and a female. I tend to not tackle themes of mental health and disability directly but they are present in the sense that art helps me heal and escape. I’m calling this series Empyrean. I first came across the idea when I read Dante as a child but for this work I have been using a wider concept. I’ve been thinking about how the word can relate to the skies, stars, orbits, planetary, movements, all things cosmological that always inspire me.But it also refers to the more spiritual concept of higher heaven and “source of light”, this realm that is beyond space and time. To me this stands for love and knowledge , relating to the love of knowledge of science and philosophy. It also seems like a nice place to be, a place where the limitations of a very defined body or a disabled body might disappear. A refuge of pure light. This spheres form a cosmos of shapes that can be cosmological, (at a very large scale), or biological (at a microscopic scale),a world within that might affect us and our health. |