Madeline Weste

What does it feel like to be inside our own head?

If a photograph is a machine’s objective interpretation of one moment in time, then my paintings are an attempt to fill in what a camera cannot see: how our mindset, emotional state, individual history and spiritual openness color our way of seeing.

We don’t go about the day seeing things as they would appear on film. Sometimes a small person can feel large, or a bright day can feel dull. My work tries to explore what it would look like if emotional and psychological insight were represented as overlapping objective fact.