16”x20” acrylic painting on maple panel. This painting depicts my nightly view when I worked in Dinoland USA at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. This view is from the vantage point of the exit ramp of Primeval Whirl which is no longer standing.

20”x20” acrylic painting on maple panel. This painting depicts the view of College Hill/ Hope Street neighborhoods in Providence, RI during Fall from the vantage point of the parking lot of the capital building.

12”x12” acrylic painting on maple board of the satellites on top of the building sun the heart of Boston.

This 8”x8” acrylic painting on maple board is part of the “Neighborhood Series”, depicting houses in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Providence, RI.

This 8”x8” acrylic painting on maple board is part of the “Neighborhood Series”, depicting houses in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Providence, RI.

This 8”x8” acrylic painting on maple board is part of the “Neighborhood Series”, depicting houses in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Providence, RI

This 8”x8” acrylic painting on maple board is part of the “Neighborhood Series”, depicting houses in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Providence, RI

This 6”x6” acrylic painting on maple board is part of the “Neighborhood Series”, depicting houses in the rMount Pleasant neighborhood of Providence, RI

This 6”x6” acrylic painting on maple board is part of the “Neighborhood Series”, depicting houses in the rMount Pleasant neighborhood of Providence, RI

16”x20” acrylic painting on maple panel

16”x20” acrylic painting on maple panel

16”x20” acrylic painting on maple panel

8”x8” acrylic painting on maple panel

8”x8” acrylic painting on maple panel

8”x8” acrylic painting on maple panel

6”x6” acrylic painting on cradled basswood panel

“Glitch” is a spot illustration from my thesis, depicting yet another symptom of depersonalization.

6”x6” acrylic painting on cradled basswood panel

This self portrait represents the feeling of dissociating - or disconnecting - from oneself and the world.

16”x20” acrylic paint on cradled basswood panel

The fourth piece in my thesis project, “Winter Street Concourse” and shows yet another common symptom of Derealization: the feeling as if one’s surrounding and the people within it are holograms or props and are not tangible, physical beings.

Derealization is the altered perception og one’s surrounding in a way that makes them seem fake and unnatural. Often felt as one of the symptoms of a panic attack, derealization has a wide variety of symptoms. WHile experiencing derealization, being in public spaces with layered visual and auditory stimuli such as laundromats, grocery stores, and public transportation can become unbearable due to the individual’s lack of the ability to filter through and process sensory information such as color, sound, movement and texture.

16”x20” acrylic paint on cradled basswood panel

The third piece in my thesis is entitled “Childhood Bedroom” and depicts one of the many symptoms of Depersonalization.

Envision yourself going about daily activities, overwhelmed by stress from work, and then within the blink of an eye you’re now watching yourself as if in a movie. Suddenly it is as if you are playing as yourself in a video game, looking down on your actions from a perspective as if you are floating in the top corner of the room. Nothing in the world around you has changed and everything but your own body remains three-dimensional and tactile. Your hands no longer feel like your own and instead feel foreign and detached from your body. The person in the mirror is unfamiliar and strange, you feel like an actor playing a role without and identity of your own.

16”x20” acrylic paint on cradled basswood panel

The second piece in my thesis, “DS9” depicts the feeling of certain body parts bring not your own or belonging to someone else.

Imagine being stuck within a moment, unable to move towards or away from your perception of an experience as the connection between your thought and environment become temporarily immobilized. Time continues to progress around you as if sped up and your mind is desperately trying to keep up. Trying to talk yourself down from this feeling is impossible as every little sound bombards your ears, echoing as if you are standing in an empty stadium. Your eyes fall prey, unable to focus as if looking at the world though a fogged up window pane. What was once tactile and 3-dimensional now falls flat in front of you as you continue to watch your life played back on a screen, unable to interact or connect with the surrounding world, your sense of touch numbed as if you are wearing leather gloves.

16”x20” acrylic painting on cradled basswood panel

The first piece in my thesis, “Derealization (Laundromat)” depicts the overwhelming feeling of being disconnected with one’s environment while experiencing derealization.

9”x12” acrylic painting on maple panel