THE BLUE HOUR

Each piece holds the pause after the mask is gone, when rest allows the inner world to appear and what was hidden finds the light.

About The Show

The Blue Hour is an exploration of identity through cyanotype and clay. It reflects inner emotions that often go unseen, the quiet and complicated feelings beneath the surface that resist easy definition. These works invite the viewer to slow down, to look beyond what is immediately visible, and to sense the weight of what remains unspoken. It is about the space between the outer image and the inner truth, a place where emotion lingers in the shadows and waits for the right light to be seen. In this hour of deep blue, boundaries blur and hidden truths begin to surface.

As an artist with autism I live between two versions of myself. There is the self that meets the world and the self that exists quietly beneath the surface. Masking has become instinct, shaping my expressions and gestures so they meet expectation. It is a constant performance that carries its own cost, a slow and quiet exhaustion that builds in the body until the need for stillness becomes undeniable. In that stillness I find a kind of honesty that cannot exist under the weight of performance, and in creating this work I am learning how to hold that honesty without fear.