To Be Heard and to Be Held (I am building my castle)

To Be Heard and to Be Held (I am building my castle) is the last in a trilogy called ‘jaws of life’ each exploring a different emotion at its core- the work aims to help Francis-Shanahan and others hold room for the specific emotion (joy/woe/strife) and encourages discussion on how we hold these feelings in the body.

This edition explores strife/anger but with an underlying desire to release these repressed emotions and what the result of this action can be. The images and graphic text collages contain a sense of motion as most work was made as a stream of consciousness release, charged with feeling.