Zhixuan Guo
Soulful Resonance -- An exploration of claustrophobia through poetry and painting

MRes

Summary

This is a demo entry based on 23/24 indentity

Keywords

Claustrophobia, emotion, memory, painting therapy, poetry

Introduction

My research is based on my personal experience. I use art and research as a means of digesting and processing painful memories of my heart: understanding trauma, healing trauma. In the process of studying, as a painter, I never stopped painting. In my practice, I use easel painting to vent my unspeakable pain. The brush in my hand is like a cut in a closed window, and emotions flow out of it. My world is like a confined space from a third perspective. And I use one frame after another to show people the oppression that bind me in the world. When the paintings construct the world that I want to express but are unconscious, I see the emotions and difficulties of various colors. When I thought to myself that my world should have been just cold, without much temperature. In fact, colorful and rich; Some struggles, pains, overflowing, shaking, are my primary colors. These bright, colorful brushstrokes are not only a protection of the scars left by years of accumulated trauma, but also a profound crusade against them in feelings.