Placebo
In this sculpture, I wanted to make realistic but fake pills, out of stones. Representing the heaviness of accepting and taking things without actually understanding them. Each pill being hand sculpted one by one is a reflection on the state of the mind and the way we could control the feeling in our body and mind. The “candy-like” appearance of these stone pills are indicating intimacy, harmlessness, and a model of minimalist order, hiding or banishing the fears of death and decay, the way medicine does, as it is promising that much but can only stave off the inevitable.
