Kit
"Mattress"
Two flat canvas boards, 12” x 12” each
Inspired by Emma Sulkowicz’s 2014-2015 performance art thesis “Carry That Weight”, this painting imagines community and mutual aid as (literal) supports to for survivors of interpersonal violence. The arrangement of the figures beneath the mattress is intended to echo the US Marine Corps War Memorial (Felix de Weldon, 1954), inviting the viewer to think critically about what American public discourse considers “heroic”. COMMUNITY SUPPORT - HEROIC EFFORT TO END SV