In my time as an artist, I’ve enjoyed breaking down what makes up an artwork. For this project, I've started to delve into the idea of form and emotion tied together, one influencing the other while creating something more.

People think and understand the world by relating stimuli to feelings, like how a child learns to think of red as hot and blue as cold; this project explores the same idea. The images create vague forms that, especially when combined with colour, make the viewer think of an emotion and relate it to the image. We also know that the context matters for how creatures react to stimuli; animals usually tend towards worse emotions when alone, but when together, they are more often cheery. I wanted to relate this to the images by having the images with more figures be up to interpretation and changing them to be distinct from their counterparts with only one figure. By creating an atmosphere to generate the feeling I wanted in the studio, the images take on a naturalistic form and come from the raw inner feelings of the models, thus imparting that feeling onto the image itself and the viewer.