Understanding Free Your Body: Free Your Mind

Abstract

Floorboards creak, as I stand, basking in the colored light pouring in through the windows. The warmth of the sun touches my skin as reds and blues dance over my arms and legs, transporting my body into another reality. I remained there for most of my life, bathing in the colored light produced from my father’s stained glass windows. The light captivated me more than the windows themselves. Throughout my life I had always been drawn to the smaller fascinations: the explorations of change particularly in the human experience. Perhaps this was due to my younger years of self-loathing and excessive introspection, or perhaps, it was because I wanted to change. Glass allowed me to be enveloped by something larger than myself and give my innermost self over to something that was not as egocentric. Due to this commitment, I have gained an understanding of the materiality of glass, and through this installation I further explore its potentiality. Through Free Your Body: Free Your Mind, I am creating an immersive experience, which takes the viewers beyond themselves and into something incomprehensibly greater.