anxiety maps

Anxiety has roots in the author’s own experience. He had to compete with negative emotions, which was after the discussion with the therapist revealed as anxiety. Deeper understanding came with writing about it and meeting others who suffered similar problems. Later he found out that texts are just one of methods to fight these emotional states. It resulted in an installation combining painting, objects and a video. The theme was grasped through the method of mapping.. Autor says: “Maps are representations of a surface. They are showing relations between places, landscapes and objects. There you can see a forest and this street has a library at its end. Objects and their limits: surface and its texture – piercing abstract space. Outer maps have their inner cousins, exploring relations between thoughts, feelings and emotions. But the body consist of both types of maps (relations). And do we “draw” these kind of maps, resting between emotion and its surfaces, between visible and invisible, inner and outer? I would like to call a method which works with it mental kartography. “There is a newborn thought on my arm and piece of a dream behind ur ear. ” Surface is a representation of a depth, as branch imprints roots.”