Art Unmasks Us
Why is it subjects of art often express pain and loss? While social media hypes our happy, flawless, filtered lives; art looks behind the curtain at our pain and loss.
Art that expresses inner pain drops our mask, for a moment. It gives us a safe place to be comforted and understood without being exposed. It reflects how a divorce, a miscarriage and misfortune of every sort feels. It is our inner sobbing, wordlessly written.
This beautiful sculpture by Allison Streett is of a woman who has suffered the loss of a baby. It expresses poignantly what loss of every stripe feels like.
