MOURN V

Humans cry. To dictate standards set into binary is to restrict and cause implosion. Toxic, not all. We cannot banish in total. For aggregates and commonalities bed outliers. It is not all men, but too many. Not enough support. Standards of non-feeling make unfeeling people. Cut-off from emotion, birthing shapeless men. Devoid of true humanity, edging further into oblivion. The stifling of oneself is to be shunned, not embraced.

Through the years of sourcing stock images for subjects, often finding there were almost half the results for “Man crying” than “Woman crying”. ‘MOURN’ is a counter to this experience. Adding fragility and serenity, absent from the source.

MOURN V

[DIGITAL ARTWORK, 2023]

‘Existing imagery, rendered in noisy ember effect, with typographic frame.’

IMAGE SOURCE:

Pexels 4098339 - by Cottonbro Studio.

TYPEFACE:

‘BRUTUX — OL’ by Olio Studio.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

An oval shaped artwork depicting a close up shot of a Male with several tears streaming down their face. Rendered in a noisy Red and Black, with text on each side in a blocked typeface that reads ‘MOURN V’. All on a Black background.