Artwork Collection

Seven Emotions - Inner Landscape

Based on the traditional Chinese culture and the concept of "seven emotions hurt five organs" in traditional Chinese medicine, the seven emotions of joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear and shock are transformed into scenes inside the body. The work takes organs as a carrier to turn abstract and indescribable emotions into visible shapes: the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys are entangled, broken, spread or glow, symbolizing how emotions stay in the body and slowly aﬀect people's state.

Emotion Organs

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1 - Joy (喜) - Heart

This work reimagines excessive happiness as a trapped state. The glowing heart is surrounded by thorns, which shows that when emotions are too strong, happiness may also become a kind of pressure.

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2 - Anger (怒) - Liver

This work depicts anger as a spreading force. The red magma spreads outward from the inside of the organ, showing how anger gradually occupies the body and consciousness.

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3 - Worry (忧) - Lungs

This work expresses sadness as a slowly falling maple leaf. The translucent lungs floated in the dark and were surrounded by the kite line, symbolizing that emotions stayed quietly in the body.

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4 - Thought (思) - Spleen

This work depicts thoughts into layers of staggered leaves. The obscured organs gradually lose their original appearance, showing how overthinking can trap people in their own hearts.

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5 - Sadness (悲) - Lungs

This work depicts sadness as a sinking fish. Broken lungs are dragged by seaweed, iron chains and anchors, showing how sadness makes people feel depressed and stagnant.

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6 - Fear (恐) - Kidneys

This work imagines fear as a trapped space. The inside of the organ is surrounded by zombies and constantly stretched out hands, symbolizing how fear continues to spread in the body, and amplifies the most uneasy imagination in the heart, making... More

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7 - Shock (惊) - Heart

This work depicts the shock as a sudden out-of-control moment. The heart wrapped in luminous lines kept vibrating, and chaotic memories and feelings poured into the body at the same time.

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8 - Shock (惊) - Kidneys

This work depicts the shock as a feeling of being suddenly emptied. There was a dark space and floating shadows inside the organs, as if the body had lost its sense of security in an instant. The eyes hidden in the dark and the unstable outline... More

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Internal Organs Map

This work combines the organs corresponding to diﬀerent emotions in the same body. Broken lungs covered with seaweed, heart wrapped by thorns, burning liver, shadowed organs and spreading kidneys together constitute a person's inner world. The... More

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Jiaxin Yu

“Seven Emotions - Inner Landscape Based on the traditional Chinese culture and the concept of "seven emotions hurt five organs" in traditional Chinese medicine, the seven emotions of joy, anger,...” [More]