Mixed Bag: Baggage by Sharon McCoy

摘要

It's much easier to light out on new adventures when you're light on your feet. Traveling light sounds great, but it requires an introspective journey through the past to decide what to keep and what to let go. Working with intricate layers of media and meaning, Sharon McCoy asks these questions, as she creates a guided tour filled with stories and emotional encounters. Most of her pieces have a whimsical and humorous air, directed toward catching the attention of the viewer. But each one also has a level of seriousness spilling out over the layers. No matter how brightly colored or warmly inviting the sculptures may be, each one represents something painful, complete with the vehicle necessary for the removal of that painful element. Remembering the impetus for this body of work, McCoy said, "A song came to mind that my grandmother used to sing about Jesus taking burdens, rolling them into the sea, never to be remembered. I began inventing vehicles to remove these so-called burdens from our lives."