Feet to Foundation
Feet to Foundation examines the body’s early encounters with misrecognition, restraint and survival. These works trace how medical, racial, and emotional frameworks shape a child’s experience of illness, not only as condition, but as context. Through stillness, resistance, and cyclical treatment, the chapter constructs a fragile yet formative base, where pain informs identity, but the cracks leave room for growth.
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Before the body can stand, it must remember the ground beneath it.
Feet to Foundation serves as the prologue to The Collection, a threshold between identity and illness, resistance and restraint. It begins with Skin, where the body becomes the place of misrecognition, shaped by historical and systemic filters in which pain is interpreted. In Don’t Push Me, defiance comes forward as a response to suppression both physically and emotionally, while Infection traces what happens when physical and psychological wounds are unacknowledged, and begin to erode the foundation. Seasons responds with the exhausting cycles of treatment, hope, and resignation. Finally, Jammed captures the suspended moment of that resignation and its conclusions.
This prelude aims to root the viewer in the embodied tension of waiting, of being held in processes that leave us feeling overlooked and delayed.
Feet to Foundation lays the structural and emotional groundwork for the chapters that follow. It is a beginning marked by rupture, and the slow emergence of something resembling resolve.