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Not Overwhelmed at All, a mixed-media collage on board by Anastasia Shi, 2022

Selected Work · 2022

Not Overwhelmed at All

  • Year2022
  • MediumMixed media collage on board
  • Dimensions171 × 122 cm
  • StudioMexico City
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Beyond the irony of its title, Not Overwhelmed at All exists at the threshold between emotional saturation and the pleasure of feeling everything at once. The work does not attempt to contain excess; it embraces it. In a world that demands clarity, order, and control, this collage proposes emotional overflow as a form of radical presence. Its layers, fragments, and visual tensions function as an internal map: overlapping thoughts, simultaneous stimuli, emotions that refuse to wait their turn. Collage, by its very nature, becomes both language and concept—a structure that does not impose hierarchy, but allows contradiction to coexist. Rather than simply representing overwhelm, the work reframes it. There is a quiet celebration of emotional chaos and an acceptance of intensity as part of being fully alive. Feeling too much ceases to be a burden and becomes a source of pleasure, expansion, and truth.

Not Overwhelmed at All invites us to reconsider the boundary between collapse and euphoria, suggesting that sometimes balance is not found in feeling less, but in allowing ourselves to feel everything.

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