Beautiful Emotions

Amy Parker’s borderline personality disorder diagnosis answered a lot of questions she’s always had – ‘Why can’t I control my emotions?’, ‘Why can’t I make friends?’, ‘Why am I so impulsive?’, ‘Why am I sometimes destructive?’, ‘Why are these things always happening to me?’

Building a suite of tools and techniques she needs to thrive has been a game-changer for mother-of-three Amy, who has loved art ever since she was a little girl.

Art provides Amy much needed respite from her busy brain, which she says is often difficult to quieten.

This piece is a visual representation of what I feel my inner thoughts and feelings look like. Each individual dot is a thought, feeling or memory within. Each blotch that encases a group of dots is the inner mind's "filing cabinet". 

The black is the void of nothing; the feeling of nothing and the emptiness within. I wanted it to capture the inner body visual of particles, cells, pockets, sections, bacteria, fluid, veins and motion.

Flowers represent growth, beauty, strength and resilience to the elements of life.