Nadav Ben David  // Very Sensitive Person

 

​Art is my escape
The bed is my safe space
Knowing I'm not alone keeps me going.
My story of coping as a highly sensitive person with the harsh reality governed by heteronormative codes, where any deviance comes at a personal cost, served as a liberating source of inspiration for my final project.
In the project, I seek to express symptoms like insecurity, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, depression and heightened vulnerability. Through material design, textures and a personal symbolic world, I create a textile-wearable space that provides protection, comfort, emotional expression and inner retreat for highly sensitive people. I designed a mixed gender collection that is all made out of my original paintings on soft and comforting fabrics such as linen cotton and sponge. The goal is to create a solution for the difficult struggle and alleviate the symptoms, as well as raise social awareness about the challenges these individuals face and gain understanding, empathy and acceptance. The escape to my safe haven is the artistic expression of my feelings, including the duality between the desire for solitude and the simultaneous need to be enveloped in warmth and love.

 

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