Straining Theme_Abstract I saw her suffering day

I saw her suffering day to day and then after her death

It is truly a poem of ecstasy that is lived and breathed

and intensity

The branch emerged from a majestic

apocalypse

Straining Theme_Abstract I saw her suffering dayIn Straining, terracotta dwarf figures are compressed and embedded within piles of bricks. The use of bricks as a metaphor for workers adds a powerful layer of meaning to the installation. Bricks, fundamental to construction yet individually overlooked, represent the laborers and lower classes who are essential to building and sustaining society but are often treated as anonymous, replaceable parts of a larger structure. Each brick symbolizes the