It Only Rains Confetti In My Mind
Solo Exhibition - Boom Gallery
2022

ARTIST STATEMENT

About 5 years back I had a ‘psychotic episode’ that lasted a few months (I know, shocker, an artist with mental health problems!) I pretty much lost my mind in the conventional sense, was punching myself in the head a lot, and ended up in hospital way too many times. It was all as horrifying as it sounds.

 Through the long process of methodically putting my life back together I became conscious of the authority I had over my own happiness, and of my agency to structure my life around what gives me joy. I no longer associate happiness with luck, but instead view it as an output of the mechanism of my consciousness. Not to reduce it down to a truism, but essentially - good stuff in, good feelings, good stuff out.

This show is a pure extension of that process. Some of these works are about things that bring pure joy to me - animals and people, and some of them are about ideas that manifest purpose and awareness - the winding path it takes to make art, or the conscious choice to look for magic in reality. I wanted to fill the space with all of it, like a grinning hallucinogenic postcard from my psyche.