A confessional exploration of suffering, conceived as an ocean-themed meditation. Freud’s notion of “oceanic feeling” is explored - what does it mean to feel limitless and free, to juxtapose the desire for those feelings with one’s reality? What does it mean when one’s reality is incapable of coexisting with ideals of freedom? How can we suffer and survive, how can we suffer and thrive, how can we abandon suffering altogether? This piece, whilst drawing on lived experience, aims to homogenize reality and imagination, invite hapticality, and explore the self.

- Aim