Wendy Cohen
“Cracked” Series Statement:
We are all fragile, broken, incomplete, yet it is the ways in which we cope with these cracks in our lives that begin to make us whole. This need to either overcome or mask our vulnerabilities connects us all, making us each feel less complete as individual entities, but forever uniting us as imperfect beings, forever alongside one another.
I repeat the pattern of broken glass disrupting each of my pieces to portray the simultaneously intimate and omnipresent fragility that unites all beings. The figures I paint are connected to one another by the presence of the cracks that engulf them, for without the cracks a single piece is more whole; however, it is only when they are present that the works become closest to complete in a cohesive collection.