wash your dirty laundry in public

Many times during my childhood I heard the phrase: “You don’t wash your dirty laundry in public.” The social conventions regarding emotional expression were: keep it inside, forget and just move on. All made me physically and emotionally ill.

Why was it that emotions where regarded as bad, inconvenient and troublesome?

Instead of silencing my voice, closing my eyes and forgetting the past, I decided to emerge myself deeply into the world of emotion and develop a visual language for the traumas, emotional suppressed experiences, social expectations and associated behaviour passed down from previous generations that were still bleeding into my present day reality.

Wash your dirty laundry in public is a visual journey into my perception of the six emotions anger, desire, fear, guilt, sadness and shame.

NB: The video shows the emotions per category in alphabetical order: anger, desire, fear, guilt, sadness and shame.