Mental health features a range of different emotions whether it be calm, excited, empty or even numb. I used colour to help portray all the different emotions one can feel and with the addition of a digital element it expresses how emotions can change quickly or slowly and also how one can feel several emotions at once.

Overwhelming Emotions

About the Artist

Patricia Agus

A multidisciplinary artist that works primarily under printmaking but also works with sculpture, installation, painting and video. I make works under the themes of personal feelings, personal growth and belonging. Delving deep and using art as a form of therapy is an interest of mine and I believe art can help communicate feelings and thoughts that words can’t describe.

Big Amygdala Energy | A SIGNAL Zine

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SIGNAL Curators acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land, the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay respect to Elders both past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

This project was produced in collaboration with Science Gallery Melbourne, University of Melbourne and City of Melbourne through SIGNAL.

Overwhelming Emotions

Patricia Agus

2022

35x46cm, 1min 10s

Acrylic on canvas, video