Joon (my soul, my spirit, my life), you never took me down. You pushed me back up and taught me to survive, despite the weights sinking my ship. You never let me drown.

Crab Theory. paint, resin, clay

©️2022 Roya Ziba

🦀Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, crabs in a bucket mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you". The metaphor is derived from anecdotal claims about the behavior of crabs when they are trapped in a bucket: while any one crab can easily start to climb out, it will nonetheless be pulled back in by the others, ensuring the group's collective demise.

The analogous theory in human behavior is that members of a group will attempt to reduce the self-confidence of any member who achieves success beyond the others, out of envy, jealousy, resentment, spite, conspiracy, or competitive feelings, to halt their progress.

*😲I fractured my finger while creating this (car door), leaving me to work with one hand and the other hand in the form of a claw! My work is always personal, physically, mentally and emotionally, but always there is something else magic teaching me