THE PARABLE OF THE BOY AND THE BARREN OLIVE TREE

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The Parable of the Boy and the Barren Olive Tree is an introspective journey through my upbringing, both within and without the institution of the Baptist Church. Structured as a three act play, the series of photographs and sculptures investigate the derangement my body, mind, and spirit have endured, and how this history affects present platforms surrounding my spirituality.

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This collection of photographs and sculptures explores distinctive emotional memoirs collected from a young age through adolescence within a religious institution. While created through the metamorphosis of emotional feeling to objectified structure they utilize abstract language to express specific moments in history. The autobiographical and performative photographs demonstrate these events and their residual affects, while the exhibit in its entirety is an act of transformation: from impressionable, then injured, then the final and continual act of growth.

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