Maya Kaplan

Wait, pretend...

This work is atmospherically contemplative, peaceful, and melancholic; she has overcome a moment of reckoning within. She watches her life wash up with the sand grains and sway back down to the reefs, in awe. The credits are about to roll. For a brief moment, she holds sorrow, regret, denial. In another, she forgets. Because one last wave holds a particular memory that the beach horse smiles with;Playing with her girlfriends on the playground, they are laughing and running, but one pauses. To the others, she says, "Wait, let's pretend that..."Reckoning with freedom, play as 'performance', girlhood, self-determination, and self-acceptance.