Something Rotten

Zoë Neubig is a senior majoring in Studio Art and Art Therapy with a minor in Art History at Miami. Although her concentrations are in painting and sculpture, she often uses a multitude of mediums to create her art.

Her detailed sculpture titled Something Rotten, seen here, embodies how the human body changes in response to trauma. “After physical boundaries are violated, one’s perceptual relationship to their body may become strange and unfamiliar,” explains Neubig. This change occurs both physically and psychologically over the course of time. The subject struggles to stand up tall, and her body decays and gives way to fungi.

“This piece,” says Neubig, “seeks to represent this alienation between body and mind as one of many psychosomatic effects of trauma.”