Foley Part I:
Birth and Death

At this point in time I was beginning to run into a lot of emotional walls where I didn’t feel there to be a proper way of artistic expression to help me work through it. I also found a deep frustration with my feelings around social media platforms and how they were giving me warped perspectives of love, affection, and happiness. From this I began to post on social media using a cartoon head over myself and friend’s faces as a barrier between social media viewership and a false reality I was constructing. This was the “birth” of Foley, a characterized extension of my own current mental state and inner thought. Foley started in a hyperbolized, angelic, and colorful world, but over time I felt that Foley had expanded his use in that respect. In this world Foley would often be surrounded by impossible objects, collage, and most importantly flowers, which would remain a consistent symbol of constant growth, life, and death. When I felt Foley had run its course I decided to give him a symbolic death in which, over the course of three pictures, he would engage in a battle to the death resulting in him being pierced through the chest with a sword, signifying Foley’s death. (for the time being)