A colleague and friend of mine said to me many years ago, when I was questioning the direction I borrowed on a project:
“Trust the process”
A Phrase that many think corny, and maybe it is, but it has never faulted me.
I trust that things will come together whatever path I take so long as I stick with it. That’s another phrase worth considering a bit more seriously.
This collage project, that I undertook under the false promise of exposure, was still a good endeavour, as it helped me regain confidence that I could stick with something, and something, anything, will come of it.
I learnt quite a bit throughout the process, hard and soft. While just a pin in a haystack, it gave my buried thoughts a little outlet, even if still invisible.
After a few weeks, thinking that I needed to see this through and make the bogus deadline, the chaos of my mind came together in what I had aimed for, a series of three pieces I ended up titling Peace, Love, and Happiness, serving as a personal reflection on the current global situation. It explores how collective actions are often suppressed, obscured, or erased by forces determined to on silence them. I aimed to juxtapose the energy of protest and symbols of resistance with the unsettling stillness of dominance, avoidance, and erasure through glamourised propaganda.
“Peace” “Love” “Happiness”
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