2020

Psychosis

The project is a visual script of 10 works illustrating psychosis. Each piece corresponds to a specific stage in the development of psychosis and occupies its place in the sequence.
The project "Psychosis" is also a meditation on Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence"—the possible repetition of a phenomenon an infinite number of times. This is also Freud's "repetition compulsion," and Lacan's screening from the Real, expressed through obsession.
  1. "Foreboding". A sudden surge of agitation. A premonition of an approaching "psychic tsunami"
  2. "Anxiety". A sense of inevitable destruction. Fear mounts. The Real closes in.
  3. "Where are you hiding?" Paranoia. The inevitable and the unbearable are closing in. Searching for the cause of fear. Searching for the source of anxiety. Searching for the enemy.
  4. "Beautiful Madness". The stage of splitting. The visible and actual facets of reality glitch, and a single, obsessive, imagined image begins to repeat and spread across all perception. Thought falls into a trap. Reality no longer unfolds before the subject in its usual mode and perspective; instead, it "freezes," "repeats," and "multiplies."
  5. "One to One". Absorption. The disintegration of perception.
  6. "Remnants of the Sky". Connection to reality is lost. Disappearance.
  7. "This is a dead end. Turn around" The subject temporarily "surfaces" from the void, seeing darkness instead of familiar reality. Disoriented, he takes a step back and sees a dark wall—a dead end. He turns around.
  8. "Not behind the living darkness, but before the dead light" Turning around, a small fragment of reality comes into view.
  9. "Landscape + Landscape = 3 Landscapes". And once again, this small fragment of reality begins to "glitch" and spin around itself, creating a psychic hurricane that now completely consumes the subject.
  10. "This Star Casts a Shadow". The birth of a psychotic star as the culmination of psychosis.
Monday, June 3
Psychosis
mixed media