Currently studying Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, Sienna Heasley (b. 2006) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Pittsburgh area. Visualizing matters of the subconscious, Heasley ventures to personify the mind within her work. The imagination and internal landscape being as ineffable as they are, it is difficult to capture in words the subliminal experiences that are assumed to be singular to the individual psyche. Heasley instead endeavors to translate these experiences into a collective visual language, positing that even the most incidental and personal thoughts and musings could be familiar to many. Typically blending representational portraiture and abstraction, she connects the human figure to the immaterial landscape of the mind. By further affecting this space with vivid color and visual maximalism, she aims to capture the chaos and frenetic qualities of emotional processing. Often drawing parallels to nature, Heasley further explores how balance and harmony can exist amongst wildness in the mind, just as patterns can exist within the ever-changing environment. While seemingly unpredictable, just as in nature, much that occurs within the subconscious landscape does not happen without reason. Ultimately, by placing the human figure within the transcendental and intangible landscapes she creates, Heasley draws comparison between our conception of the subconscious mind and our current natural reality.
EMAIL: siennadrawn@icloud.com