This summer I sat on the edge of a 50 ft cliff staring into the absurdity before me. My friend’s body burst out of the water and he screamed from the adrenaline. If I stood, I had to jump. I was confronted with the most significant experience of human freedom and responsibility yet in my life. I sensed a very real lack of anything that predetermined if I would jump. Nothing stopped me.

 

I’ve found similarities in existentialism and in the way I have viewed life in the past few years and even more so after my experience this summer of standing on the edge. I now face the paradox of believing my life is important while thinking general human existence is without purpose. This conflict of ideas has caused feeling of despair, isolation, absurdity, doubt, and longing. This project is about the exploration of these feelings and ideas as I go through my daily life. I am seeking to express how this emotional experience can be shown through physical reality.