The Color of Healing

Aespyne Alix’s work draws a critical look at the impact of violence experienced by a community in relation to the mental health and wellness of its members.  Alix’s work creates dialogue around the often taboo subject of mental health and trauma experienced by a group, culture, or community—and how to effectively begin to HEAL. The Color of Healing is Aespyne’s third project, in which she explores how violence affects communities further in the form of police brutality as a reaction to politics, discrimination, and the isolation of the pandemic, during her 2021 summer residency with R.A.R.O. Barcelona.  Aespyne Alix is a Chicago based artist.