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Title: Inside the Noise
Medium: Oil pastels on paper
Size: 30 x 40 cm (framed)
Year: 2026
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Presentation: Signed, varnished, and professionally framed
Description:
Inside the Noise is part of my ongoing series exploring anxiety and mental health through oil pastels, a medium that allows both softness and immediacy.
At the centre, a curled figure is enclosed within concentric waves of colour—vibrant yet overwhelming—suggesting an inner space where emotion, thought, and sensation intensify. The surrounding radiating lines evoke pressure, noise, and the constant intrusion of external and internal stimuli. There is no clear boundary between inside and outside, only a continuous expansion of feeling.
The use of circular movement reflects the cyclical nature of anxiety: thoughts returning, building, and repeating without resolution. At the same time, the luminous colours suggest that even within this intensity, there is energy, awareness, and a form of presence.
Philosophically, the work considers the paradox of anxiety as both confinement and heightened perception. The figure is not only trapped, but also deeply connected to the surrounding field—aware, sensitive, and exposed.
This piece invites the viewer to enter that space, not to resolve it, but to recognise it: the experience of being inside one’s own mind, where everything is felt at once.