2024, dimensions

Medium: Drawing, Sculpture

Materials: Colored pencil, dura-lar, decorative paper, bible pages, embroidery, cotton

This piece investigates the concept of original sin as it relates emotionally to disability and pain. It examines as metaphor the idea that the original sin — Eve biting the apple — stays inherently within everyone. Therefore, even if you have done nothing wrong, pain is deserved as punishment for original sin. This is a tempting answer to the impossible question: “what did I do to deserve this?”

Nothing. The apple you did not bite still rots in your stomach.