These artworks were selected because I feel they show different emotions and how this connects to feelings. For example, Palestine represents the sense of when media and history collide, or when news expresses opinions that may cause division – that truth may be represented falsely, and feelings become provoked – like anger or suspicion. Another artwork, Heart, I feel is representative of happiness’, and feeling happy, using the heart as a visual symbol of the centre of human emotion. I chose a heart as a symbol for emotion, rather than, for example, the brain, owing to it being known or understood to be beating heart of life and perhaps one’s emotional journey. I have also included Incense Burner, which is personal to me because I realised emotions are connected to memories, or that memories can bring out certain emotions. The sense of smell and our memory is very connected, so I’ve explored my countries custom of using Frankincense and the incense burner as a symbol my countries culture – that incense feeds our emotional state.

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I have used the motif of black in many artworks, or darker tones, not just for visual qualities, but as I feel it is a dominant visual experience. Black does not appear too much, but I hope it might symbolise how emotion can be a positive (use of white and colour) and negative (use of black) experiences.

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Moving right to left, the audience will first see Flowers and Heart and Mandala, which are positive feelings and happiness, and then there is a move towards artworks which bring memories, and more sad feelings – for example Space which represents my feelings of missing home. The audience might understand the spectrum of our feelings, which can sometimes be happy, so positive emotion, and sometimes sad or angry, for example in the Palestine, where I feel both anger and confusion. I have also used plinths to break up the flat space of the wall, where 3D work encourages the audience to circulate in the space. I have included fake green plants within the exhibition as a visual impact strategy, which may allow the viewer to experience a sense of calm within a white space which can be cold and barren – so trying to create a balanced emotional starting point for the viewer. The green has been placed in the middle, alongside Incense Burner, to represent the mid-point of our feelings or emotional state. I have also placed some artworks high, and some low to encourage the viewer to explore.

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Finally, I hope the audience can understand that everyone can share their feelings or use emotion as a way to express experience and the facts they may encounter in life.

Can artworks express our feelings is a question I hope the audience may ask.