“The Enabler”
40 x 32″ Graphite, color pencil and chalk pastel on on archival board
♦Available through Cactus Gallery Eagle Rock, CA August 14th – September 5th
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Notes:
The Enabler is about bulimia specifically. The girl with the long neck is depicted as how she feels on the inside, like a monster. She is ashamed to have even her cat witness her grotesque behavior. The girl on the bottom embodies the sometimes friend that accompanies you on your journey through bulimia, an enabler. Allot of times girls will enable each others eating disorders, often creating pacts. The girl sitting on the head captures the empty feelings which often follows a purge. To further emphasize the detachment of body and mind, she is sitting on her head, which is a common feeling in eating disordered people. The reason why I chose a Japanese girl is because Japan and America have statistically the highest amount of eating disorders in the world.