Puppeteer

By: Megan T.

Losing control of your mind and being controlled by your own worries, paranoia, and thoughts. Oh, how the turn tables.
This piece depicts an overwhelming tension that is constantly just on the precipice of overflowing and bursting explosively, going well over the point of no return.
But what do we do then when we all eventually crumble? and what exactly is holding us back from crumbling?

Puppeteer: Image

I have always had somewhat of a morbid fascination with flowers.
How can something so small and delicate symbolise, affect and impact so many different things?
It is rather intriguing to find the unexpected meanings of various flowers. For example, in the Chinese culture, Chrysanthemum tea is said to help to balance internal heat, benefiting our health. Yet, in several European countries, such as Belgium, France and Italy, chrysanthemums symbolises death. The contrast between life and death is endlessly captivating to me.
For this piece, I wanted to capture the feeling and imagery of having overwhelming and anxious irrational thoughts that seem to lie to us. Yet, these thoughts somehow manages to infiltrate our daily lives and for some, it manipulates and takes control over some of our lives, affecting our thought processes and how we function. This choking and restricting us in so many subtle ways until it eventually boldly threatens us and corrupts our original personalities as a whole.
Something that keeps repeating in my mind: Your anxious thoughts are lying to you. So, how do I kindly tell them to go away? And, how do I know that they are lying?

Puppeteer: Text

Puppeteer: Selected Work