The Nebula Infestation presents a focused selection of twelve mixed-media drawings from my larger ongoing body of work, The Nebula Snake - a series I have been developing since 2022 as a way of mapping internal psychological states through image and symbol.

At the centre of this wider body of work is the motif of The Nebula Snake: an unstable, amorphous form that recalls serpents in heat, parasitic worms, or invasive organic matter. It emerged in my practice as a visual language for the negative forces that inhabit the inner life - anxiety, grief, dread, compulsive thought, and the invisible emotional conditions that shape how we move through the world. The Nebula Snake is less a literal creature than a psychic presence: a form that coils itself around memory, perception, and the body.

In The Nebula Infestation, this imagined force becomes more immediate and confrontational. Across twelve drawings, the nebulous forms are placed in direct dialogue with expressive figurative imagery collaged into each composition. Fragments of the human body, gestures of tension, and states of emotional collapse appear alongside the slithering, writhing, invasive forms, juxtaposing psychological burden and the self that carries it.

This series is concerned with the idea of the infested self: a self inhabited by forces it cannot fully name, but whose effects are deeply felt. The infestation becomes a metaphor for the internal conditions that stunt growth, corrode self-perception, and distort one’s relationship to the world beyond the body. These works illustrate anxiety as an abstract concept while attempting to give it texture, shape, and movement - to render visible the unseen pressures that accumulate beneath the surface of human existence.

Through intricate line work, collage, and expressive mark-making, The Nebula Infestation turns inward, tracing the uneasy territory where the psyche and the self confront one another. The drawings do not seek resolution so much as recognition: an acknowledgement of the difficult, often hidden forces that exist within us, and the strange forms through which they make themselves known.