Headgear

The initial inspiration for this work came from a visit to New York City. The complex grandeur and absolutely planned quality of the city made clear to me the power of the mind to visualize and manifest. I then turned that idea of the power of thought to the way an individual’s psyche is shaped. People often unconsciously impose on themselves behavioral patterns that result from adaptations to critical life experiences. An individual may develop a strong set of convictions, impacting the way he or she functions in the world. Though such constructs initi­ally exist in a purely mental realm, because of the energy invested in maintaining the beliefs, to the individual they can take on a concreteness. My interest was in translating such psychological states into actual artifacts.