What does it look like to feel?

A lived experience can be recalled in many forms – imagery, a narrative, or video – yet to recount a sensation, one must become intimate with the biology that composes it.

Each impression and interaction is internalised by the body: every held breath, every fresh wound, every scream and every dance, immortalised by the biological system it was formed upon, or within.

In my works of abstraction I aim to concentrate the lived experience into a series of biological impressions – an assumption of internal life in parallel with the emotional experiences encountered by the conscious mind. My experiences of personal grief, anxiety, dysphoria, and euphoria are relived in the viscerality of the forms.

To relate to a wider human experience, the painted shapes maintain standard of ambiguity – recognisable as human yet not identifiable – mimicking the form of veins, organs, cartilage, and beyond. The subjects float stagnant within a vacuum, exposed and void of their usual protective shell. Repeating patterns depict unbroken cycles, unfurling to fit within a framework of their own making, never ending. Sensationalised, the forms are almost a ‘pin up’ of their former selves: every element that used to occupy an enclosed, unseen space, is now on show and inviting onlookers.

With my work I aim to characterise the complexity of an emotion – to communicate a physical feeling through visual means in order to encapsulate an experience, while also providing resonance and relief within feelings shared.