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Fluctuating between autobiographical and science fiction, Forrest remains curious about the terror of the sociological systems that oppose and suppress the psychology of individuality. Both metaphysical and paraphysical pathways of gender and sexual reclamation remain present. This trauma mediation joins many deeply troubling human conditions. The correlation lays within the intimacy of alienation, the perceptions may vary but the disruption of one’s identity as a sacrifice for security is shared. This collection of books acts as an appendage to her art practice, it is within the art of words that innumerable meanings breathe.
The Imaginary Imagination
2023
Found objects, airbrush acrylic paint, silicone castings, hair of the artist, and other mixed media through hand
7" x 10.5" x 3.37"
This book, titled The Imaginary Imagination contains a collection of vulnerable autobiographical accounts that embody themes that consider identity dysphoria, perception fabrications, mnemonic memory retrieval, power dynamics, sensory perception, gender assimilation, and sexual autonomy in relation to childhood, adolescent, and adult trauma. This first edition single hardcopy book works to dissect the anatomy of the imagination by separating each chapter into fragments; curiosity, survival, anxiety, hallucination, queerness, love, dreaming, and abandonment. Each chapter contains multiple stories and each one stresses an imagination disruptor. Just as in Forrest’s art practice, she endeavors to probe and enlarge the human understanding of what identity embodies by assessing ambivalent human exchange and the unspoken interactions between them. Her writing functions as a stream of conscious and subconscious thought, that ranges from overt to obscure, shaped around memories.
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Dystopia: A Visual Anthology
The Chair
2023 | 15.63" x 26.04"
Book - 60 Pages | Entry - 10 pages
The chair is a science fiction short story that captures disempowerment within the systems that have constructed human condition. Based in a realm where the conscious mind can perceive the metaphysical and paraphysical, the narrative embodies the subconscious mind's absurd and abject nature. Through ambiguous visual language, The Chair comments on the complacent security that we conform to -- which results in anti-autonomous reality.
If our autonomy was arrested, we'd continue to live within the rumination of the conscious mind and the protective space of our subconscious. We'd conduct the metaphysical within the paraphysical that lives behind our tired closed eyes. Our imagination, memories, thoughts, observations, and dreams would nurture our subservient bodies. Nourishing our will to live and breathe.
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