Mid-semester project

Our country is obsessed with the quick fix. Medication is almost always the answer for anything from a common cold to a fatal disease. I feel like we no longer slow down, listen to our bodies and perhaps prevent the need for medication in the first place. Take headaches for example. A massuse once told me that most headaches are caused by tense muscles in the neck. I decided to investigate what factors might cause tension in my own body. Bending over to carve in the woodshop and lying on an uncomfortable couch were two obvious causes of the uncomfortable knots and tight muscles. I also found that listening to my body during times of stress (the night I quit my job for example, days run on lack of sleep for another) my shoulders would often shrug, straining muscles throughout my neck, upper back, and face.
So, what if people began to listen to their bodies more often. Step outside of his/her body for just a moment, breathe, connect with the breath and physical reaction to a stressful situation? Perhaps at the very least we would have fewer headaches...
For the focus of this project I plan to do dive a little deeper into the physical research to discover what strength I have to heal or prevent muscle/heade aches. I will focus the actual sculpture on the power of breath and the physical body, creating an abstract figural wood form and glass representation of breath flow to the shoulders where most of my tension is stored.