livpuckett

Liv Puckett’s most recent body of work, Love, Mom and Dad, is a body of pieces containing sculptural elements and photography that explore fragility, memory, and the cycle and inheritance of generational trauma. The sculptural pieces explore the messaging we receive from our parents and loved ones and show that growing up with backhanded comments can distort our identities well into adulthood. The photography speaks to vulnerability and the pressure of stress at home, the delicate ways we carry tension and fragility in our lives, and the destructive patterns that repeat throughout generations. A sense of revelation, recognition, and irony is meant to stop the viewer, take hold, and slow them down before asking them to reflect on their own childhood encounters with identity-forming moments. These traces left behind by words, actions, and experiences from youth quietly shape how we see and feel the world. The artwork does not try to fix the viewer’s discomfort or force a sense of closure; it reflects how these deep cuts can be visible or hidden.