With Healing Intentions, 2024

“With Healing Intentions" is an abstract mixed media painting that explores the cathartic properties of tears, through a Freudian lens. Part of the series “Unrandomly” investigating the subconscious mind, the work features spontaneous, gestural st...

“With Healing Intentions" is an abstract mixed media painting that explores the cathartic properties of tears, through a Freudian lens. Part of the series “Unrandomly” investigating the subconscious mind, the work features spontaneous, gestural stains and washes that serve as visual metaphors for the wordless outpouring of emotion. This artwork complements the painting from the same series titled “Tears are words”, trying to capture the conscious mind’s attempts to rationalise and make sense of the amorphous emotional realm. Translucent veils of pigment bleed and blend across the surface, suggesting the flow of tears as they release pent-up feelings from deep within the psyche. Both paintings delve into the human drive towards psychological equilibrium. Our tears - with healing intentions- symbolised by highly diluted paint and organic stains, become agent of emotional release and renewal, a flushing out of dissonant energies, to allow for integration and therapeutic wholeness. On the attached under-print, some washes of colours have been peeled off, leaving thinner white parts on the paper and higher transparency between the two materials. Like tears flowing down our cheeks, washing off make up and masks, the material interplay reveals small paths of clarity, where subconscious and conscious mind suddenly align.