Emotional Storage | Charis Fleshner

Charis Fleshner (Loveland, CO) | June 2021

Emotions are an everyday part of being human, but allowing ourselves to name, to be present with, process, and transition out of them are a challenge. Toxic masculinity often limits men’s comfort levels with the full emotional range. Capitalism devalues and ignores emotional labor. As a society, we stifle the communication of each other’s emotions.

This space and installation is meant to be a physical manifestation of a variety of emotions. One can hold, rest on, crush or be crushed by, or simply surround themselves by the soft sculpture representations of feelings. Is is a place to do something with the leftover you. This space invites others to see what can be addressed or resolved when we have a concrete way to identify and grapple with emotions.

Jordan Robinson and Alexandra Warren contributed the shapes for compassion and grief and Juliana Rosalie Giddings was a sculpture stuffing assistant.

“There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.” - Audre Lorde