Kelly Su

Graphite drawings depicting my emotions, memories, and sensations over the span of ten days. Instead of using a physical, tangible object as the subject of my new “daily rituals,” I chose to use my emotions, sensations, and experiences, which I dubbed my “soul.” I have never used a mood tracker or anything of the sort, so I wanted to document the fluctuations and changes of my “soul” in the sequence of ten days, which the project required me to do. The mystical, organic, strange shapes and patterns on each page is intentional: it should evoke a sort of curious feeling that is a bit ambiguous—as all emotions are. I chose to leave space for wonder as the audience flips through the pages; the interpretation of emotions is up to them, but I have written down my experience on translucent paper and stuck it to the pages. Considering this is a mood tracker, something intimate and similar to a diary or journal, I drew all of this in my personal sketchbook. Not using professional paper and other professional materials is necessary—this has to be humble, something that feels accessible. My process of putting my “soul” to paper was fully intuitive—I had no inspiration or moodboards to reference, just the way I interpreted my feelings and sensations, as well as how I experienced the memories of these ten days. That is why the “soul tracker” is interpretative: someone else may experience my pages differently than I did. Where I feel sorrow or discomfort, others may see it as joy or peace; after all, how everyone experiences the world differs greatly, and every individual’s “soul” is ever-changing.