tear(s)

Tear(s) is a series of over twenty collages, and more are in the making.
A community of women (their faces or their body parts) are torn apart by forces pressing from within - insights, dreams, memories, regrets, traumas, desires.
To rip - tears open up their faces. To cry - tears scar their skin.
Ripped apart, they cry tears that create scarification and beauty.
To recompose their wholeness - their identity? - is perhaps the common tension holding them together, keeping them from disintegrating into fragments.
List of works:
tear(s)3-scream; tear(s)5-meltdown; tear(s)7-bullets; tear(s)9-bound; tear(s)11-falling;
tear(s)13-warrior; tear(s)15-crevice; tear(s)17-autumn; tear(s)19-blur; tear(s)21-decay.