What is Confidence?

This piece is created out of soccer balls and basketballs. It is a photo from one of Maxwell’s most important basketball experiences - the ESPN College Slam Dunk Championship. This piece is about the complexities of confidence in any sport. It highlights the idea that confidence can waver, and that athletes have the ability to appear confident in a time of uncertainty by relying on the practice they’ve put in. Under the tinted helmet of this piece, there are clouds that signify Maxwell battling the feeling of being nervous and overly conscious, despite appearing to be amongst the stars on the outside. Relying on muscle memory is what enabled him to drown out the nerves and be great.

Superpowers: 

- Using muscle memory to fight the feeling of nervousness 

- The ability to be vulnerable about confidence in sport

- Using momentum to create a sense of delusional confidence