Grieving Tree

2023

steel round bar, welds

6’x5’x4’

At the end of my first year in grad school, I made another tree, this time more intricate but ever more lonesome. I thought of it as something frozen in a young moment of growth, stunted by the tears eternally falling from its branches. I thought of it as a metaphor for my own growth as a person, feeling held back by all the years I spent grieving the past.