Miss Mary Mack
2022
Acrylic paint and graphite on cardboard
Concerned with feelings of self doubt and disconnect with the self, I focused on my name as a representation of the self. I played off of the nursery rhyme of Miss Mary Mack, in which she is given fifteen cents, and compared this nursery rhyme to my misguided worries about myself. To play off of Mary’s fifteen cents I placed this amount in one hand, representing personal anxieties about myself, and in the other is "my own two cents," which is what I know to be true about myself.