Empathy

In collaboration with Madelaine Smith and Lynsey Stratton

2024

Distressed fabric, metal rods, stoneware beads

6’ x 3’ x 10’

Empathy: it comes with the beauty of lifting others up, and heaviness of carrying the weight of others. Nearly 40 participants wrote prayers for someone in their life with whom they empathize, a lifting up. Who they wrote the prayer for as well as their name was then stamped on stoneware beads, creating a real physical weight. The beautiful relationship between the two elements transpired in a floor to ceiling installation marked with unique handwriting and distinct names and initials.