Neurosis

Abstract

Neurosis is a series of paper-based sketches grounded in my embodied experience. The works explore how individuals adapt to mental and chronic physical conditions as they become embedded in everyday life. Though non-fatal, such conditions are frequently minimized or concealed beneath performances of normalcy, as they expose vulnerability, shame, and ambiguity, which remain unwelcome within a male-dominated culture structured by power and productivity.

Red is used to accentuate pathological traces, situating microscopic viruses, cells, and bodily tissues at the sensory thresholds of the figure, such as the eyes, mouth, and skin. By externalizing these internal disturbances, the drawings render visible the otherwise imperceptible dynamics of mental strain and heightened sensation, translating private corporeal experience into a shared visual field.