This was the first time I noticed the height difference between the subway platform and the train. For a long time, I had never paid attention to these “unimportant details.” Or rather, I simply didn’t have time to think about such things. Every time, before my brain had time to think, I was already on the train. But this time was different—I was about to take a friend on the subway, and he needed to use a wheelchair the entire time. That’s why I started thinking: How do wheelchair users take the subway?
How can the internal sensation of anxiety be expressed through visual mediums like distortion, repetition, and claustrophobic composition? I examined how anxiety is expressed in bodily sensations, warped perception, and isolates individuals emotionally. I directed my research towards taking invisible emotional tension and making it physical by distorting mundane imagery to represent psychological instability.
People often casually say someone is ‘so nice’, but Ali is one of those rare individuals who truly deserves that compliment—from everyone who knows him.
