CHAOS

“Hooked, now searching for peace.”

Close-up of a glass with a beverage, ice, and bubbles, with a blue and pink light reflection.

What if the need to run isn’t escape, but exhaustion? Where do I go to find rest?

Chaos explores the tension between sustained pain and a desire for release, the pull of what is and the longing for what could be. The IV line becomes both tether and lifeline, anchoring memory while sustaining momentum.

  • In Chaos, we witness a hand suspended mid-motion, wrapped with a visible IV line, part lifeline, part restraint. This image stems from real-life experiences with prolonged medical intervention, where IVs were both essential and burdensome. The work captures a moment of pause within motion, where past trauma and future hope coexist.

    The swirling blue tones conjure the crisp clarity of a new beginning, but the tethered tubing signals that healing does not happen in isolation. Instead, it unfolds alongside memory, weight, and longing. Is the subject breaking free, or being pulled back?

    By blurring the lines between surrender and striving, Chaos contemplates how we move forward while still feeling the grip of our circumstances. The result is not a clean break, but a reckoning with the uncertainty that lies between where we are and what we reach for.

  • Sometimes the future feels like a blank canvas, hopeful, open. Other times, it feels like a trapdoor beneath our feet. In Chaos, the IV line becomes a symbol of contradiction: it nourishes and restricts, heals and reminds. Like our past, it travels with us, sometimes as an anchor, sometimes as a source of strength.

    Faith doesn’t always promise clarity, but it does promise presence. Even when we can’t discern what lies ahead, God walks with us into the unknown. In the tug-of-war between escape and transformation, we’re invited to trust, not in perfect outcomes, but in the One who goes before us.

    “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”  Isaiah 26:3

    Reflection Question:

    What past pain or pressure is God asking you to carry differently, so it no longer defines your direction?

  • Workshops: Creative sessions on addiction, compulsion, and unrest.

    Therapeutic/Educational: Training on destructive coping patterns; relevant for addressing substance use, compulsion, and restlessness.

    Community Dialogue: Conversations on chaos, craving, and peace.

    Youth Engagement: Projects exploring control and freedom.

    Wellness Spaces: Reflection prompts on turbulence and calm.