Eve Telly

These environmental self-portraits capture the uneasy dance between self and surroundings. I aim to explore the paradox of presence, of being physically grounded in a place while feeling emotionally and mentally removed. I use both familiar and unsettling spaces to convey an unaccepting yet inhabited environment. In this work, depression becomes a landscape in which I navigate. Affecting how I perceive and interact with the world, bestowing a muted or distorted quality upon it. In making these portraits, I made a friend of myself as my own subject. This series seeks to exhibit a vulnerability, where adaptation is not a seamless integration but a continual negotiation with discomfort.

Fill The Form is a representation of the loneliness, staticity and isolation that trail depression. How it feels to move slower than the environment you are bound to exist in, ultimately taking its form and adapting to survive. Where there is no time for sensitivity.