Paranoia Synapses

Perception is everything in understanding.

Near the end of 2020 and early 2021, Ashley was plagued by chronic migraines with aura. These headaches were met with numbness moving across her body, a throbbing she could visualize, and blindness. She was living her life in constant fear that that these would seize her impromptu and she performed multiple “checks” with herself to make sure what she was seeing was real. One of these included counting her fingers to make sure she could see all of them.

Eventually, they stopped due to anxiety and stress management. These linocut prints embody that experience: the fear of not seeing what may be there based on our perception and the anxiety of being something, someone, you can’t control.