The
emotional
interior,
rendered.
I investigate how generative systems approximate human emotion — informed by the DSM-5, neuroscience, and a needle threaded with embroidery floss. The stitch is not decorative. It is structural.
Each work begins with a clinical question: how does a diagnostic framework — the DSM-5 — translate into visual form when filtered through a generative system? The research sits at the intersection of psychology, machine perception, and the limits of language.
“Abstraction as an entry point for machines to approximate emotional nuance.”
The works are not illustrations of mental illness. They are studies in translation — what is gained and lost when psychological experience moves from clinical text, through algorithmic interpretation, and into hand-stitched image.
DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for a specific disorder become the input. The language is precise, categorical, resistant to image.
An ecosystem of tools attempts to render the criteria visually. The results reveal what machines associate with grief, with compulsion, with anxiety.
Extensive editing in Adobe Illustrator. The image is pushed toward precision — not photorealism, but exactness of feeling.
The image is printed on canvas and sewn by hand. The technique comes from the funeral industry, where it is called suturing. A wound requires support to close.
Hello, World!