Yeah I am good (A Silent Struggle)
Wood Assembly Relief
25 x 15 x 4cm
2026
Yeah I am good (A Silent Struggle) is an art work providing commentary on the performative stoicism Men carry as a badge of honour. It asks the viewer to look past the golden perimeter and witness the weight of the silence within, a reminder that even the most structured facades cannot indefinitely hold the pressure of a soul in shards.
Explored as a physical autopsy of the “standard reply”that reflexive, hollow assurance offered when the internal scaffolding of a man’s mental health begins to buckle. In Yeah I Am Good a silent struggle , I have dismantled the traditional gilt-wood frame, long a symbol of societal stability and “the finished man,” to expose the jagged architecture of a quiet collapse.
At the heart of the piece is the fragmented “thumbs-up,” rendered not in flesh, but in splintered plywood and industrial adhesives. It is a violent, poetic dissonance: an icon of resilience that is literally falling apart, yet still desperately performing the gesture of being “fine.” By stripping away the protective canvas, I am highlighting the lack of a perceived safe space for masculine vulnerability; when there is no sanctuary for the struggle, the man must exist in a state of perpetual, raw exposure.
