Patick Goguen

he/him
Instagram: @Patrick_Goguen_Art_Studio
www.PatrickGoguen.com

Look at Me (2023)

Hydrocal, Bronze Patina Stain, Poly

Your soul collapsed-
Left you vacant standing there,
holding her hand,
no warmth given back.

Storm clouds form in your organs,
Thunder replaces your lungs,|
your paper-mâché skin contains the flood.

Blood carrying enzymes of grief,
alchemizes your heart into paper cranes,
littered about flooded sidewalks. 

Days after,
ear drums pierced with sorrow,
Rapid exit from routine.
You sprinkle dust -
where she once stood.

You remember dancing in the rain,
as a young child.
Purposely bolting outside during deluge.

Presently at water’s edge, watching glass boil.
Your paper skin recoils,
at the thought of rain.

Artist Statement

Patrick works in the figurative tradition he creates emotional depth to his work by offering two distinct experiences. The physical experience of seeing it in person and a secondary abstracted emotional queue through poetry, providing narrative scaffolding, without directly telling viewers what to think.

Artist Bio

Patrick Goguen is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist, art installer extraordinaire, and community arts advocate. He leads Gallery A2 at Artisans Asylum. He has curated and installed artworks throughout New England, built an elephant toy, timber-framed in Poland, TA’d Human Anatomy & Mold-Making, and spent 6 years running a non-for-profit bicycle shop. In his sculpture he works with the human form participating in the canonization of societal iconography condensing multi-faceted narratives into physical form.

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