“Okay, Okay; and other lies we tell ourselves" opening reception

Madeline Brice’s “Okay, okay; and other lies we tell ourselves” is a series of works in response to the increasing number of untruths about ourselves we quietly, loudly speak into existence.
“Do you smoke?” “No”, I say, having smoked a cigarette only an hour ago.
This work is an investigation into the lies I’ve told and continue to tell myself and the cognitive dissonance it implies. For dissonance is ambiguous, intangible. I often tie it to my feelings about perception. Having recently been diagnosed with a visual perception disorder these untruths have caused a more reactionary impulse. This disorder causes the world to seem dreamlike and delusive, an unwavering struggle between myself and reality. I can no longer sit with the dissonant discomfort like I used to. I’m interested in the perceptive patterns that these lies or untruths create as they build up in a portion of the psychological space, their combined power gradually forcing a change in my attitudes and behaviors.