Taygan Bassi
My practice is driven by my lived experience of navigating life with depression.
It entails a melancholic introspection, a way of working through complex emotions, an abnormal perception of reality and a disjointed connection to self. Straying from the stereotypical dark imagery associated with sadness and depression, my work aims to represent experience as a way to understand ourselves and to propose that chaos enables growth. My work seeks to highlight the value of lived experience as a factor that both connects and divides us. It also explores symbolism in mythology, collectively understood stories and characters that have become universal unconscious metaphors for human experience, emotion and growth.
what brings us to tears will lead us to grace, 2020
Photograph
841mm x 594mm
