40x60" acrylic + charcoal on canvas, 2023
 
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thoughts:
 
insanity
repeating patterns + hoping things will turn out differently.
they used to lock insanity away, call it hysteria, 
 
set it on fire.
 
so we consume the flames. 
again and again.  moments large and small.
patterns.
mostly unseen.
like thread weavings in the fabric, hard to notice if you're not looking..
 
we think we know rage.
we’ve seen it portrayed
the shape, the color, the sound.  the script prewritten 
a prop to hold
a distraction, an attempt to redirect
an inconvenience.
 
but hysteria is without competence, it won’t stand.
 
this rage
is quiet.  it’s tactful
it’s complex, expansive, uncharted
carried for centuries by those with strong shoulders 
without a voice.
this rage is malignant
accumulates as heat 
like mercury stored in visceral matter.
 
and most matter has a flashpoint