We as humans tend to be unable, or perhaps unwilling, to confront the raw heart of ourselves, the things that give us the capacity to experience pain, fear, love, and hate. It is truly a challenge to uncover our greatest demons; and quite another to translate it visually. The goal of this series is to present raw feeling in a universal form, through gesture and expression, and create a mirror through which humanity may find what dwells within themselves.

D. Branchaud has been working with acrylic paint since 2002, evolving in skill and ideology with each new piece. She studied art at the University of Central Florida, now working as a freelance artist in Fort Myers. She has been developing a series of work that explores the mystique and variety of human emotion, engaging in a passionate survey of feeling based on observation as well as personal experience.