Patrick Ryan Bell

I create entities that materialize my relationship to health and the anxieties that surround it. Illness, including persistent struggle with identity and body dysmorphia, as well as maladaptive and destructive self-soothing strategies, manifests itself in my art as metaphysical and anatomical explorations. Fingers, organs, torsos, and other locations both inside and outside the human body become symbolic representations of sensations and moments.