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Botanical Drawings as Emotional Cartography of ...

Mapping Feeling Instead of Places When I think about botanical drawings, I don’t think about plants as decoration or nature study. I think about mapping. Not geographic mapping, but emotional...

Botanical Drawings as Emotional Cartography of ...

Mapping Feeling Instead of Places When I think about botanical drawings, I don’t think about plants as decoration or nature study. I think about mapping. Not geographic mapping, but emotional...

Dark Drawings with Bright Color: Why High Contr...

Contrast as a Sign of Life When dark drawings hold bright colour, something immediately shifts in the body. The image doesn’t feel quiet or static. It feels alert, awake, and...

Dark Drawings with Bright Color: Why High Contr...

Contrast as a Sign of Life When dark drawings hold bright colour, something immediately shifts in the body. The image doesn’t feel quiet or static. It feels alert, awake, and...

Pink Drawings Beyond Softness: Intimacy, Vulner...

Why Pink Is Rarely Taken Seriously Pink is often treated as a minor colour, associated with sweetness, decoration, or softness that lacks depth. In visual culture, it has been reduced...

Pink Drawings Beyond Softness: Intimacy, Vulner...

Why Pink Is Rarely Taken Seriously Pink is often treated as a minor colour, associated with sweetness, decoration, or softness that lacks depth. In visual culture, it has been reduced...

Blue Drawings and the Quiet Experience of Emoti...

Distance as a Feeling, Not a Lack Emotional distance is usually described as something negative, a sign of coldness or withdrawal, but in blue drawings it behaves very differently. Distance...

Blue Drawings and the Quiet Experience of Emoti...

Distance as a Feeling, Not a Lack Emotional distance is usually described as something negative, a sign of coldness or withdrawal, but in blue drawings it behaves very differently. Distance...

Green Drawings as Psychological Grounding in Vi...

Why Green Feels Like a Place to Stand Green is one of the few colours that doesn’t rush the nervous system. When I work with green drawings, I’m not thinking...

Green Drawings as Psychological Grounding in Vi...

Why Green Feels Like a Place to Stand Green is one of the few colours that doesn’t rush the nervous system. When I work with green drawings, I’m not thinking...

Drawings Made of Night: Emotional Depth Without...

Night as a Psychological Space, Not a Threat Night has been framed as something to fear for a very long time. In fairy tales, religion, cinema, and even everyday language,...

Drawings Made of Night: Emotional Depth Without...

Night as a Psychological Space, Not a Threat Night has been framed as something to fear for a very long time. In fairy tales, religion, cinema, and even everyday language,...