EmoChART installation is a continuation of First Aid for Artists and other wounded souls.  Focused on healing collective trauma, the project invites us to check in with ourselves and then share our feelings with others. A visual art/social practice project, EmoChART was developed in response to the COVID pandemic, climate peril, and injustice; the project was initiated to help folks connect, articulate, and visualize feelings by creating a space for reflection and expression of shared felt experiences. Partially funded by the City of Berkeley, the pilot project uses a “feelings chart” translated into glass, sound, and light to help us visualize and externalize our complex emotional landscape. 

From April 2021 through August 2022 people were invited to fill out a google form and anonymously indicate what they were feeling. The data was translated into eight basic color groups based loosely on Plutchik's emotion wheel representing relationships between different groups of feelings.  EmoChART mapped 32 feelings placed in time and sorted them into eight basic color groups: blue:peaceful, purple/pink: happy, red:angry; orange:fearful,  yellow, surprised, green: disgusted, warm grey: bad, cool grey/clear/black: sad.  Link to google form feeling's chart here

The Installation at 2727 California presents a sampling of data from 19 different people or times collected through the EmoChART form translated into colorful sintered glass tears handled gently, and tied onto strips of window screen.  Each strand maps the data from only one person.  The 19 strands of tears hang side by side area in chronological order from when they were felt. Suspended in an empty canvas stretcher frame they suggest a snap-shot portrait, or landscape, of collective feelings .