6 Month Emotional Portrait.
Chameleon, Surface Gallery 2019.
Chameleon, Surface Gallery 2019.
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For the past couple of years I've been capturing and documenting emotional experience, using a chart made up 170 different emotional descriptors, categorised into 13 sub-categories; 7 positive (attentiveness, surprise, happiness, relaxation, empathy, shyness, confidence), and 6 negative (sadness, boredom, guilt, stressed, hostility, fear).
I present the charts as ‘Emotional Portraits’ intended to represent an individual's emotional experience during specific events in their life, or over a particular period of time.
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'The first time I held a newborn.' Philip Lee (2019)
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For example ‘The first time I held a newborn’ (2019) represents my emotional experience at a single moment in time, in response to holding my newphew for the first time. My '6 month Emotional Portrait' (2018) on the other hand, acts as a summary of my emotional experience captured over a 6 month period based on recordings taken twice daily.
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'6 Month Emotional Portrait.' Philip Lee (2018)
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Whilst I use the chart to document all sorts of phenomena, the chart itself was originally created during my architectural masters to help communicate the abstract phenomena of subjective emotional experience. I needed a way to portray how an individual felt in relation to being in a specific environment.
The chart’s design itself, along with the 170 emotional descriptors was developed using psychological theory, and is an adaptation of Dr Oliver Jones’ Models of Emotion Classification (2015), with added scales of intensity for each descriptor.
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'Emotional Chart.' Philip Lee, 2017.