Public Face

I built this figure as a small monument to the social performance of being okay. The body looks stiff and display-like because I wanted it to feel less like a living person and more like a model of acceptable emotion. The fingers pull the mouth upward on purpose. That gesture matters to me because it shows a smile being manufactured rather than felt. Even the pedestal and the carved word turn the person into something presented for approval. The sociologist Erving Goffman wrote about how we treat life as a theater, constantly performing a role on stage to satisfy the expectations of others. I kept thinking about that idea here. Many of us learn to say, 'I am fine,' while something unsettled keeps moving underneath. The smile survives, even when the self behind it has gone quiet.

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