Wants and Needs

Wants and Needs explores friendship, jealousy, vulnerability, and the complicated ways women can relate to one another. A woman appears in a vulnerable state, struggling to emerge while surrounding figures pull and tug at her. Their actions suggest the conflicting impulses that can exist within relationships—support and competition, affection and jealousy, vulnerability and judgment. The work considers the difficulty of being seen and understood while also acknowledging that vulnerability does not always produce kindness or good intentions. The figures become symbolic of the emotional pressures that can exist within relationships between women and within one's own perception of others.