Empathic Web, 2022, Alcohol marker, sumi ink, and graphite on paper, 110 in x 108 in (11 in x 14 in and 18 in x 24 in panels)
Empathic Web, 2022, Composite of detail images
Empathic Web was a months-long project committed to tracking, developing, and structuring a piece that spoke to the function of my work in part as a practice of medicine. I was guided by the function of healing and medicine as a conceptual and visual magic, and more specifically the function of persistence in attempting to heal the unhealable as a pure form of empathy. I was fascinated in the functions of supernaturality and driven by a developing relationship with grief, sickness, and fear. I created different forms of symbolic and visual languages that developed in the form of symbol-organisms and beast forms while suggesting spaces, languages, and sciences developing in real-time.