Jiaxin Yu

Joy (喜) – Heart This work reimagines excessive happiness as a trapped state. The glowing heart is surrounded by thorns, which shows that when emotions are too strong, happiness may also become a kind of pressure.

Anger (怒) – Liver This work depicts anger as a spreading force. The red magma spreads outward from the inside of the organ, showing how anger gradually occupies the body and consciousness.

Worry (忧) – Lungs This work expresses sadness as a slowly falling maple leaf. The translucent lungs ﬂoated in the dark and were surrounded by the kite line, symbolizing that emotions stayed quietly in the body.

Thought (思) – Spleen This work depicts thoughts into layers of staggered leaves. The obscured organs gradually lose their original appearance, showing how overthinking can trap people in their own hearts.

Sadness (悲) – Lungs This work depicts sadness as a sinking ﬁsh. Broken lungs are dragged by seaweed, iron chains and anchors, showing how sadness makes people feel depressed and stagnant.

Fear (恐) – Kidneys This work imagines fear as a trapped space. The inside of the organ is surrounded by zombies and constantly stretched out hands, symbolizing how fear continues to spread in the body, and ampliﬁes the most uneasy imagination in the heart, making people feel unable to escape.

Shock (惊) – Heart This work depicts the shock as a sudden out-of-control moment. The heart wrapped in luminous lines kept vibrating, and chaotic memories and feelings poured into the body at the same time.

Shock (惊) – Kidneys This work depicts the shock as a feeling of being suddenly emptied. There was a dark space and ﬂoating shadows inside the organs, as if the body had lost its sense of security in an instant. The eyes hidden in the dark and the unstable outline show how the scare quickly enters the body and leaves a continuous uneasiness.

Internal Organs Map This work combines the organs corresponding to diﬀerent emotions in the same body. Broken lungs covered with seaweed, heart wrapped by thorns, burning liver, shadowed organs and spreading kidneys together constitute a person's inner world. The expression of emotions in the work does not exist alone, but will appear in the body at the same time, aﬀecting each other, intertwining, and ultimately shaping a person's state.

Seven Emotions - Inner Landscape