Draw until you cry
I started drawing the dead. I drew from a very far memory my uncle and grandmother that I knew when I was a child and disappeared then. They were family but lived far from me.
I didn't know much about them, but they had a strong impact on me. They were the first losses I experienced, and I tried not to recall exactly how they physically looked like in my drawings, but to draw from emotions. The drawings are visualizations of my memory of them. While drawing, I didn't really think but was intrigued by how drawing would interfere and represent my feelings.
A few days later, I took the plane back from Paris to NYC. I then felt an urge to draw my present feelings, and not only memory.
Not only did I feel torn between two cities, two different environment, but I realized then it was something deeper that made me feel nostalgia. By leaving, I was breaking an intimate solid circle my mother created between her, my brothers and I. It had to be broken someday, but I wanted to use drawing to visualize how close we were and are.
I was first thinking about it, and then cried while drawing it.
I can't tell you the face of the steward watching me take the tears out of my eyes and putting them on this paper, leaving a black mascara trace...
Drawing Analyser
For the "Mood analyser", I first came up with a list of drawing analyses that can express feelings. For example, if you start drawing on the left, it means that you're feeling nostalgic. If you start on the right, it means you're optimistic.
All the items of the list will be expressing a mood relying on common knowledge and image analysis.
Code coming soon
