Karen Tropea: Artist Statement

The lines between the cycles of emotion are raw, real and powerful. Just as gut wrenched crying can effectuate hysterical laughter; frustration and anger can be calmed with a simple act or feeling of gratitude. The space between these extremes is where we live most of the time.

My work is about capturing the fraction of a second in which these liminal spaces thrive.

The work expresses the imperfect, impermanent and incompleteness that life and the human condition create.