🧠 What It Means:
Emotional archaeology is like digging into your inner world—memories, feelings, thoughts, traumas, joys, even silences—and uncovering them layer by layer, like artifacts in the ground.
Rather than starting from a concept or subject, she often starts from a feeling or a moment. It’s intuitive, reflective, and very raw.
🔍 In Practice, It Looks Like:
- Letting emotions guide the composition, not just aesthetics.
- Using symbolic imagery (eyes, flowers, windows, clouds) to express inner experiences.
- Blending fragments—unfinished sketches, texture overlays, rough brushstrokes—to reflect the complexity of memory.
- Not over-polishing—embracing the “imperfections” as part of the truth.
🎨 Imagine This:
You sit down to draw. You’re not planning a face—you’re drawing what it felt like to lose someone, or the calm of a childhood summer night, or a dream that left you weird all day. You don’t worry about making it pretty—you make it honest.
That’s emotional archaeology.
