Humours

Humours is the third and final chapter of Difference 3, a three-year project exploring displacement, perception, and emotional connection to place. This video installation brings together the voices of nine participants who describe specific places where they’ve experienced four key emotional states: joy, anger, melancholy, and equanimity. Inspired by the ancient theory of the four temperaments—sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic—the work investigates how physical environments shape and reflect our inner states.

Each participant recalls general elements, like the city or weather, and detailed aspects of the spaces they were in while feeling a particular emotion. Through these personal accounts, the project explores how space and feeling are deeply intertwined.

Language plays a vital role: Participants speak in either English or Spanish, with subtitles provided in the other language. This bilingual format aligns with the project’s broader emphasis on dialogue and the idea that listening to others can open new ways of seeing—emotionally and spatially.

This is one voice among nine—part of a larger conversation within the full installation.

Kristin, Happiness.

Gratitude

I would like to express my deep gratitude to the nine individuals who generously agreed to participate in this work, sharing personal emotions in front of the camera. Daniel, Eva-Lynn, Gwen, Isidora, Kristin, Natalie, Nate, Nuria, and Susan’s willingness to open up and speak about their inner experiences was essential to this piece. While this installation of nine videos emphasizes the importance of being open to listening to others, their participation provided the necessary counterpart—the willingness to be seen and to tell. Their contributions are at the core of the conceptual foundation of this project, which explores how our perception of the world expands through empathy and mutual engagement.