Emotions: Our Guests by Insiya Dhatt

“’Emotions: Our Guests’ is born from a period of introspection, during which I grappled with less-than-positive feelings towards myself and others. Drawing inspiration from Rumi's timeless poem, ‘Human as a Guest House,’ this artist book serves as a narrative of introspection and acceptance of my own emotions.
“Each page of the book is an assembly of emotions, cut and arranged to form the names of various emotional states. Through abstraction, I designed and transformed these emotions into Bauhaus-inspired patterns, extending an open-hearted welcome to the essential facets of the human experience. Emotions like Sad, Love, Joy, Vanity, Envy, Rage, Fear, Bliss and Hope have been designed and cut so that the pattern differentiates each letter of the word.” - Insiya Dhatt