Anestesia is a performative self-portrait that navigates the boundaries between emotional stasis and inner rupture. Constructed through photographic manipulation, the work draws on visual elements—such as the enveloping blackness, the rigid posture, and the red mist clouding the subject’s gaze—to evoke the suspended state of psychological anesthesia. The red scarf, a recurring formal axis, introduces both tension and continuity, suggesting the persistence of life amidst emotional numbness.

By blurring the boundary between body and atmosphere, the image refuses clear resolution, echoing the experience of dissociation and muted affect. Anestesia invites the viewer to confront a space where silence becomes dense, and stillness becomes expressive. The work situates vulnerability not as absence, but as material—visceral, constructed, and potent.