Hallucination

Artist Statement — Hallucination
Shorna Abedin

Hallucination explores the fragile boundary between perception and reality—the moment when the mind can no longer distinguish what is seen from what is imagined.

A hooded, faceless figure stands within a fractured field of color, its identity dissolving into visual noise. It does not confront the viewer; it withdraws, head bowed, as though retreating from a reality it can no longer trust. Beside it, a red spiral unfurls—restless, self-consuming, without a fixed center. Neither object nor figure, it becomes a visual echo of thought spinning beyond control.

The saturated darkness offers no horizon or point of orientation, mirroring the disorientation of a mind suspended between the real and the imagined. Grain and static across the surface suggest a signal breaking down—a perception gradually losing clarity.

Hallucination does not resolve this uncertainty. Instead, it holds the viewer within that unstable moment, where the eye searches for form, the mind searches for meaning, and neither quite arrives.