For any of us who’re shy or anxious about interacting with others within the outdoors world, we’d consider the face we “put on” that allow us to really feel much less fearful. For Lena Guberman (beforehand), a current sequence of ceramic sculptures titled INS_IDE_OUT delves into her childhood experiences with social anxiousness and the uncertainties of the unknown.
“The mask provides a protective shell and presents a ‘perfect’ appearance to the outside world but fails to stop the fears and emotions from bursting out,” Guberman tells Colossal.
Each bit is modeled on the identical melancholy face of a younger, brown-haired woman, with painted and sculpted parts that vary from spikes to arrows to a useless hen. Emotionally evocative and generally barely unsettling, her sculptures discover the spectrum of emotions related to anxiousness.
Guberman is at the moment planning a challenge that expands upon her use of ceramics by including different supplies. See extra work on her web site, Instagram, and Behance.
