Skully

This artwork was a way of processing living with an acquired brain injury in 2014. The cityscape was a metaphors for the changing landscape of my mind as I learned to live in my new reality. 

The raised blocks covering the skull’s exterior represent a cityscape that began as a drawing of an amalgamation of different cities I had visited and places I hoped to see. Gathering parts of the cityscapes through Google Maps and others through memory I drew the imaginary map on paper. Then traced on Illustrator to create a simple digital version that could be laser cut to create a three-dimensional version of the imagined cityscape. With a mold of the birds-eye view of the cityscape that had shape-shifted through various processes, it was applied piece by piece to the skull’s outer surface in the wax casting process creating a tactile representation of my experience of moving through and processing the world differently.