FUSION TO CONFLICT (2022)

With this series of stainless steel works, Ea continues her contemplation of how the traumas of violence play out upon the individual psyche, and how these in turn echo at a species–level.

Conflict begins with the idea and form of a water droplet -Fusion, unerring from its path and inseparable from its whole, representing life in harmonious and fluid relation, In Ea’s interpretation, however, the raindrop is knotted at the moment of its reunion with the whole, fixing it in a moment of uncomfortable separateness.

What can be done with this conflict, within ourselves and our communities, in our neighbourhoods, and across borders? What are we striving towards, and why do we keep failing? These are some of the questions that drive Ea’s practices and that she hopes viewers encountering her work might also ask themselves.

Connie Brown -Sculpture on the Gulf 2022 catalogue