Darius Dunn
/Darius Dunn
This project focuses on unhealthy coping and the hard realities of healing on your own.
This project took quite a bit of retooling to figure out how I wanted to present the concept of wearing one’s insides on their outsides. In the last few years, life has gotten about as blurry as Velma without her glasses and I am now starting to figure out how to regain my mental clarity and focus. I believe the emotional turmoil that accompanies the cycle of emotional pain, failures, self-doubt, overindulgence, and further spiral continues until one comes to terms with themselves and their actions. These works intend to allow me to come to terms with my own experiences as well as poke holes in the “use X substance to cope easier” rhetoric I've been subjected to. Those are crutches and not true healing. As the doctors told me, the best way to heal an injured leg when on crutches is to stay off it completely. I use godspeed, commonly abbreviated to GDSPD, as a stand-in for all the substances because each has different effects but one thing in common is their relative distortion of the passage of time once consumed. A puff of this, a swig of that, a line of **** all get you to the same conclusion: numb. We’ve all gotten good and gone in our time on this rock once or twice but living with those kinds of crutches, will leave you with a permanent limp.
