‘Parts that Connect’ Print

‘Parts that Connect’ is all about systems and interruption. A cluster of wooden gears sits at the center, small teeth fitting together like a mechanism that should move. But glossy black paint cuts across them — pooling, dripping, pulling away. It covers some teeth completely and leaves others bare. The white canvas around it makes the contrast sharp. It’s order and chaos in the same space, and neither one wins.

The experience of having a mind that runs on patterns, logic, and parts that should connect, while something else — overwhelm, emotion, sensory load — pours over it. The gears are still there. The structure didn’t disappear. But the black changes how it functions, how it’s seen. There’s beauty in that friction. It doesn’t need the mess cleaned up to be whole. The mechanism and the spill are both part of how it works.