Uhh I'm feeling a lot of things at once

The intention behind this specific work is to depict a period of sensory abundance. The base layer of the piece is composed of several circular orbs that mimic migraine visuals, auras of light that form upon sensory triggers during a headache episode. Multiple bursts that encompass and absorb. The upper layer, or the web of the piece, is meant to be ambiguous, simultaneously depicting nerves within the face, neurology, pulsing, beauty, flora, confusion, and abundance. The disconnect between both layers is intentional and alludes to a change in sensory perception abilities, moving between the past and the future. How the senses are altered with and without the presence of pain, the contrasts between the bitter and the sweet. It is not only the range of mediums and textures used to create the piece that supports its message of sensorial abundance, but also how these mediums are layered over one another and the varied results they bring about through these combinations of layering that enhance the work's feeling of profusion. The use of oil pastels on textured canvas creates a backdrop of roughness that rests below a web done primarily using a dull matte gouache; certain sections of the web are done in acrylics and reflective ink to create tension. The shadows of the flowers were done using water-based pencil crayon over the oil pastel to create hostility between the two layers. 

The piece was created with the concepts of noise, chaos, and excess in mind. It visualizes the sensation of these concepts on a spectrum, neither good nor bad, but experiencing noise, chaos, excess and abundance with and without physical strain and pain, the idea that pain can only begin to be processed once it's over, not at the peak of it but in a valley, a valley where your senses are highly enhanced, there's a music festival and a whole new life, and you're beginning to process the past at the same location. Confusion is usually considered a negative feeling, but to be truly confused, you have to have pain, joy, and something in between, many choices with the paths leading up to them blurred out.

The original is 30x40" in size and was created using acrylics, pastels, gouache, and ink on canvas.