Silent Cacophony

Silent Cacophony hints at the discordance that arises when, on the one hand, thoughts and emotions register as internally jarring disquietude, yet on the other—externally—there is no such indication. Instead, one’s facial features and demeanor convey a sort of benign and quiet rumination or calmness. This work responds to and is inspired by the experience of months of solitude due to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet, it looks to speak to a more general and universal phenomenon in which there exists no bodily clues into the tempest that one may be experiencing in their mind.