We experience the world in the only way we can, through and with our bodies. We receive and disseminate information with our bodies and then interpret it to create our ideas of the world. Each of us function differently and therefore our interpretations of our experiences vary greatly. These variances in our understanding of the world create tension, miscommunication and suffering. Human beings have difficulty stepping outside of one’s own body and seeing things through another’s eyes.

These brooches visually refer to what appear to be functioning systems or bodies. Funnels receiving input, tubes and pipes relaying one thing to another and receptacles containing some unnoted substance. Yet these small systems do not function but instead are small portraits of dysfunction and untenable parts referencing our inability to truly understand one another.

Although there is despair in our misunderstanding of one another there is also the beauty in the differences between us. Without this difference, without variation there is sameness and replication. Both of which do not allow for diversity of thought, expression of nonconformity. We all function differently.