unbowed: AGAINSTtheLIEofORDER

unbowed: AGAINSTtheLIEofORDER confronts the structures—both internal and external—that demand compliance in the name of stability, morality, or control. The work interrogates the systems we are taught to trust unquestioningly: authority, hierarchy, ideology, and the narratives that insist order is synonymous with righteousness.

Through fragmentation, tension, and material resistance, the piece exposes how imposed order often relies on fear, silence, and the suppression of complexity. What appears stable on the surface is revealed as brittle—maintained through denial rather than truth. The figure within the work does not submit to this false coherence; instead, she remains unbowed, embodying the act of standing present within contradiction, uncertainty, and dissent.

The sculptural and mixed-media elements push against the flatness of the surface, mirroring the psychological act of breaking through imposed limits. Glittering and reflective materials interrupt the severity of the structure, suggesting moments of clarity, defiance, and inner power that persist even under pressure.

Ultimately, unbowed is not about chaos for its own sake, but about integrity—about refusing systems that require self-erasure in order to belong. It asks where we have internalized the LIEofORDER, and what becomes possible when we choose to stand upright within our own truth.