Nowhere to run to, baby. Nowhere to hide...

This is how I’m feeling today: so frustrated that every muscle in my body is tense. I am stressed out and worked up because it feels like people are pushing from me on all sides. I am reaching toward graduation day, stretching all my limbs in hopes of attaining it sooner. It’s so close, but days like this make it feel so far away. On days like this it is almost as if my brain is knotted up, trapping my thoughts and making me unable to even articulate individual thoughts. Frustration is minute on a day to day basis for me, but it’s always there and tends to build up until I explode. I inherited all of my Daddy’s temper and none of my Momma’s cool nature. On days like this, I feel like a monster and it’s best if people stay away from me.

In a way, human body language contains a set of universal symbols. When I create art, I run into the problem of conveying emotion concretely. The way I create a feeling or a mood is through abstracts and I wish this weren’t my only way of expressing those things. I wish I could find a way to extract all of the symbols in body language - furrowed brows, devious grins, crossed fingers, etc. I would love to create art that somehow expresses all of this, like a dictionary of emotional body language. I think it would make for a really interesting study and series.