Agoraphobia: Home Is Where The Heart Is Trapped

2025. Wood, felt, air-dry clay, fake eyelashes, fake hair, forceps, acrylic paint, fake heart, wood glue, ribbon.

This piece explores my relationship with “home,” and how my home is a place that I am frequently confined to during periods of severe pain and illness. The whimsical exterior of the anthropomorphic house represents the way I mask my pain to the outside world through my appearance. Meanwhile, the back of the house exposes the reality of my suffering, as the medical forceps hold up the house’s smile and attach to a bleeding heart.

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