Going Through the Motions

This piece captures the sensation of dissociation—the fragmentation of the face into distinct color planes mirrors how it feels when you’re watching yourself from the outside, assembled from separate parts that don’t quite cohere into a whole person.

The eyes stare directly out, yet the swirling patterns around them suggest they’re seeing without truly processing, looking without connecting.

The bold, almost carnival-like colors create an interesting tension: there’s visual energy and movement everywhere, yet it evokes that paradoxical numbness of going through vibrant experiences while feeling fundamentally hollow inside.

The textural depth adds another layer—all that dimensionality creating something that still expresses flatness of feeling, the sense of being a surface rather than a substance.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​