A piece materialized from sadness, grief, depression and the willingness to keep going against all odds. It’s 2022, I was going through a really difficult period in my life. I had just lost someone very special to me, and honestly, I wasn’t doing okay. There was so much sadness, confusion and emptiness that I didn’t know how to express. I remember feeling things I couldn’t quite put into words. It was almost like I was physically present but emotionally somewhere else. I think grief does something strange to you. You start experiencing the world differently. Things that once felt familiar suddenly feel distant, and sometimes you don’t even recognise yourself. That was the feeling I wanted to capture with this piece. I wanted to explore what it means to feel like a stranger to your own emotions. To carry so much inside you that you almost feel disconnected from yourself and everything around you. The title, Alien Emotion, came from that feeling of experiencing something so unfamiliar and overwhelming that you don’t quite know where to place it. In some ways, making this artwork was my way of letting some of those emotions out when I couldn’t find the words to talk about them. It’s funny how I mmmm look at an artwork years later and remember exactly how you felt when you created it. I look at Alien Emotion, and I remember that version of myself. Today, it’s my most expensive artwork yet, but its value to me goes beyond the price attached to it. It’s a piece of my story, a reminder of someone I lost, and a reflection of a period I had to find my way through it. I think we put parts of ourselves into our art without even realising just how much we’re leaving behind. Alien Emotion will always be one of those pieces for me. FAQ IS THIS PHOTOGRAPHY? ANSWER Yes, it is.