Tears - a state of intense frustration

Tears are a liquid material produced by humans and animals at times of distress, emotional crisis and extreme pain. They are the embodiment of a broken-down mental state. In my work they feature as a representative of "mental regression", the crushed state of a human mind after experiencing a great catastrophe such as a war, a military coup, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. The tear mixture shows human lose, broken families, lost friends, hunger, pain and exploitation. Whereas the charcoal dust shows the environmental lose, ruined homes, destroyed schools and hospitals.

Using water, salt and oil I have created a thick, silky substance which closely looks and feels like real tears. Water, salt and oil are the three main substances found in tears. Although my mixture is not truly accurate it manages to successfully depict real tears.

Interesting place to exhibit

After walking into the Merrion market and being inspired by its other-worldly atmosphere and its ghostly feel I thought that it could be an extremely interesting place to hold an exhibition. When entering you feel as though you have been transported back in time, to a different culture or even to a secret undergone "black market". There are many empty stalls, in all sorts of bright exterior colours, which I believe could be fairly easy to rent and hopefully at a cheap price. I like the idea that holding an exhibition here would force the normal gallery goers out of their comfort zone of the "white cube" and bring them into the everyday life of the outside world. Also it could attract the public simply by catching peoples eyes as they walk past. We could be responsible for making some ones day a lot more interesting through them accidentally coming across some interesting artwork. I really encourage you to go and have a look if you haven't already been! Go to the Merrion market, imagine its the day of an exhibition opening, with lots of people there from different walks of life, some have stumbled upon it and some are invited. I imagine it to be very interesting. I might go and get some pictures to post up on here.