Fragmented Lament

This piece is part of a collaboration with a poet friend as we tackled the idea of lamenting in current times. It explores how we as a culture don't make time for negative feelings to do their work in us. Instead, we move quickly past them, trying to be in a perpetual state of happiness, which of course is ludicrous.
 
Key phrases from some of these poems are incorporated into the artwork via dry transfer lettering, which I used in print advertising layouts in art school, pre-Macintosh computer. How might you be able to identify and properly process your negative feelings, to not ignore them?
 
Hand-cut collage on masonite panels, framed, 4' x 4' total size.