out of my hands

artist statement:

Emotion has always been a difficult concept for me to truly understand. Since I was around ten I have been on Antidepressants as well as several other medications to supposedly help my mental state. In doing so, my emotions have been heavily numbed and have become fairly difficult to understand. This piece represents me trying to keep track of my heart or the emotions that my heart represents. The hands are mine, cracking under the pressure of trying to feel, as well as be, an average person with manageable and semi-tangible emotions. I decided to elevate the heart outside of the page with some bristol board to really highlight the way that my heart is drifting away from my control, and is continuing to spiral as shown by the flow of watercolor I used in the background. Overall this piece is less representative of my emotion themselves and more of how I try to understand and keep track of my emotions.

—Jason Dailey