DISRUPT
The works displayed are part of my project DISRUPT, which I worked on during my first semester
at Limerick School of Art and Design. Through this project, I explored the nature of human emotions —
their power, complexity, and the way they shape our inner world. This topic became particularly
important to me after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when I experienced
feelings and emotions that were completely new to me — some of them containing shades of other
emotions. These emotions can wield control over us and can be disruptive to others.
These photographs were taken using a combination of several projections, representing emotions as
projections of our inner feelings. By layering multiple emotions into one image, I tried to convey
the complexity of our personality. We are multifaceted, and we often feel not one emotion but
layered combinations of different ones.
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Emotions are not singular. They are layered, complex, and often contradictory. Through DISRUPT,
I wanted to visualize this complexity — to show how multiple feelings can exist within a single
moment, within a single person. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine brought emotions I had never
encountered before: fear mixed with anger, grief intertwined with resilience, loss shadowed by hope.
I began by photographing different facial expressions of a model — capturing distinct emotions
through portraiture. These images were then printed on acetate paper, a translucent material
that allowed light to pass through. I layered these printed sheets and projected them onto a wall,
as if projecting an inner state onto the world — or reflecting the external world back onto us.
The overlapping faces merged into a single image, a visual metaphor for how emotions coexist
and interact within us. Each final photograph is a record of these projections — a blend of
multiple feelings, layered and inseparable.
These images are not portraits in the traditional sense. They are emotional maps, capturing
the turbulence of inner life. The projections themselves serve as a metaphor: our emotions
are projections of our inner world, often visible to others only in fragments. DISRUPT is
about the disruptive nature of emotions — how they can break through our defenses, how
they can overwhelm us, and how they can transform us. It is also about the beauty of that
disruption, the rawness of being truly human.