A Fine Unnameable Feeling

"A Fine Unnameable Feeling" is a physical translation of a dissociative personality—where sensation distorts as it becomes perception, altering the way memories are formed and identity is shaped. By allowing the process of malformed memory to intuitively extemporise illustrations with pen and ink, dynamic compositions are created for each moment, blending reality and delusion indiscriminately. The group of autobiographical works are contained in a book, which has been formed so that pages may be read in various orders and rearranged - even taken out of the body entirely. 

This assorted anthological comic series is guided by the collection of fragmented thoughts recorded in small, messy notebooks, which I initially used as a method for grounding myself and concretizing my thoughts and memories. These have then been arranged and accompanied by an unreliable narrator in no particular order - encouraging the experience of reflection and archiving in a dissociated psyche. It includes stray ideas for stories, fits of feral emotion, and personal information not to be repeated.  

The illustrations, writings, and images contain material which may be unsettling. 

Shannon Ross
book arts, mixed media
GENDER AND IDENTITY, MEMORY, PSYCHOLOGY

Shannon Ross Healy is an illustrator-type person from Florida who uses comics as an avenue to comprehend of a series of rambling internal monologues and improperly indexed memories present in mental health disorders. Using pen, paper (and cherished non-photo blue pencil), Ross Healy allows subjective experience to take shape visually.

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