“Passage” delves deep into the intricate channels between the rational adult mind and the inner child, exploring how each endeavours to process, rationalize, and recollect experiences of trauma, pain, and isolation. The exhibition serves as a powerful expression of the way we navigate the labyrinth of past and present memories in our quest to construct abridge toward healing and wholeness. The masterful use of language as a critical vehicle and motif is at the heart of this captivating exhibit. Reflected in “Paper beats scissors” Bryan Espiritu has crafted original short poetry that forms a poignant dialogue between the adult and child selves, illustrating how they grapple with their respective experiences of pain. This poetic exploration subtly conveys a theme of repetition, underlining our unyielding commitment to memory while evoking the internal voices that are sown into our minds during periods of abuse, exclusion, or profound suffering. These poems and passages are presented in ways that intentionally blur clarity, exude a childlike desperation, and boldly confront the matter-of-fact. In doing so, they evoke the essence of children’s storybooks, effectively bouncing mature experiences against a visual library of the artist’s own memories from the past.
