Laura Pretto Vargas

Dissecting a Feeling is both eruption and autopsy—a visceral unraveling of emotion in its rawest, most complex state. The composition pulses with layered energy: chaotic strokes, tangled threads, and eruptive textures converge to create an image that feels simultaneously explosive and intimate.

 

At the heart of the painting, what seems to be a figure dissolves into abstraction—part human, part memory, part scar. Flames of red and bursts of inky black collide with veins of electric blue, mapping the nervous system of something unspeakable: grief, longing, ecstasy, or all of them at once. The pale, dreamlike background—blushed with peach and ghostly whites—becomes the silent stage for this emotional dissection, as if the canvas itself were the skin being pulled back to examine what’s underneath.

 

Each mark feels like a gesture mid-confession: a scribbled thought, a shiver, a scream. This is not the polished version of a feeling—it’s the underbelly, the trembling truth we usually keep hidden. Here, you are invited not to identify the emotion, but to sit inside it, tangled in its contradictions and intensity.

 

This work doesn’t offer clarity. It invites empathy.

It’s not about naming the feeling—

but understanding what it costs to feel that deeply at all.