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Sinead
Ephemeral Romances Love & Attachment series by Welding_princess403 in Calgary
Ephemeral Romances Love & Attachment series
“Ephemeral Romances” is an expression used to describe the emotional attachments we hold deep inside our vulnerable, fragmented bodies that inspire conscious recognition for the potential of self-acceptance and healing. Love and attachment are relevant to the human condition, to understanding the emotional self, and to how our relationships are ephemeral.
In “Ephemeral Romances”, love and attachment are a dichotomy. Love expresses notions of joy, freedom and acceptance. Attachment symbolizes confinement, possessiveness and selfishness. Undesirable emotional attachment is formed around the unwillingness to accept fleeting realities for what they are, and instead of letting go, emotional blockages or frozen states of emotion are subconsciously stored in the physical body. The people we love, uncontrollable events, or innate experiences are not always ours to regulate or preserve. It is under these circumstances that our vulnerable self is confronted with choices to either expand or contract in our conscious emotional development, to choose between love or attachment.
Through this figurative sculptural series, I am interested in acknowledging our expanding and contracting consciousness’ towards the ephemeral. Identifying the fears so deeply rooted in these attachments that we feel an unhealthy obligation to hold onto them. Understanding our emotions and their roles allows us to cultivate the strength needed to cut ties or attachments to what does not serve us. The chains symbolize anchoring energy, while the organic forms reference the acts of self-love, healing, letting go and transforming. These sculptures represent the beginning process of cutting attachments and bringing the mind and body to a state of enlightenment through healing.
Meet the Artist
Meet the Artist
Calgary, CanadaAs one of the youngest female Canadian sculptors working with welded public art, Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess continues to create surreal artworks that question the viewers’ notion on space and the human body. By using the body as a metaphor, the form is capable of communicating a wide range of emotions and universal truths at the core of the human experience. Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess has always been fascinated with the miracle of the human body and is curious as to how the mind influences the body to create healing mechanisms to transform the entire self. Acting as an allegory for a body that has overcome adversity, Ludwig-Burgess creates dynamic figures that communicate the visible and the invisible language of human emotions. Sinéad believes human evolution can be reflected through the processes of manipulating steel. The traditional idea of the physical and mental self as a stable and infinitely whole form has eroded. The figure in visual culture cannot be stable, or entirely fragmented, but is always being renewed and reproduced in an exchange between the symbol, the body of the viewer, and the body of the artist. The focus of Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess’ studio practice in using the human body is to articulate various states of emotions in the viewer. What is meant to be evoked is the concept of our dismembered integrity, as what was once considered an infinitely whole form is eroded by the negativity in our environment.
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