LEMON DEMON MONKEY MIND

Monsters chronicles the autobiographical narratives of traumatic broken-open interpersonal relationship experiences where the pain is repurposed into different archetypes of cultural and mythological demonic identities and narratives. The series took inspiration from indigenous masks, world religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore.In the artist’s words: “When we feel disconnected with our source of life, with our ancestors, with our traditional values, we begin to wither and become a hungry ghost, rootless; going around and looking for something to help us revive, looking for a source of vitality. There is no real communication between him or her with the sky, with the earth, with other human beings, including his father, her mother, brother, sister and so on.Disconnected from our spiritual ancestors, we will suffer, and our children will suffer too. We have to look deeply to see what is wrong. If those who represent our tradition do not embody the best values of the tra