Commissioned for the Freud Museum

Lead acetate solution with zinc, copper wires, in glass tank 50 x 10 x 30 cm

Melancholy isn't still, it makes the moving of time seem painfully slow as it takes over. The crystals will slowly take over the box through the duration of the exhibition, visualises how melancholia takes over the sane mind.The aquarium setting traps and restricts the chemical reaction, and isolates it from the environment it’s in, thereby representing solitude in depression. Freud believes melancholia happens in the unconscious mind, and art offers an escape from the conscious mind, which takes us into the world of the experimental to seek to visualise melancholia, to embrace.

Exhibition information: https://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/melancholia/

UCL Psychoanalysis Unit interview: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/events/2020/dec/melancholia-art-exhibition-freud-museum