Show Statement:

In 2022, Americans are acknowledging mental health more widely — especially surrounding trauma. Many may know what it feels like to be disconnected from one’s self due to a traumatic experience that left us feeling unsafe, unworthy, and even unloved. Reconnection explores lived experiences and paths to wholeness of individuals from varying walks of life and traumatic experiences, such as abandonment, domestic violence, and war. Through the use of ceramic portraiture and animal symbolism, that these individuals chose, the work communicates each subject’s reconnection to a state of authenticity.

Photo Credit: T. Maxwell Wagner