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“The Way You Make Me Feel” — by MAAS
This painting takes its title from the song by Michael Jackson, but the feeling behind it lives in a very different place. For me, it speaks about the chaos of a non-functional relationship — when both sides are trying, but confusion, timing, and emotional weight make connection impossible.
The face is fragmented, restless, overloaded with colour and tension. It reflects how depression creeps in during the lowest moments, how past trauma and the PTSD from my career resurface when I’m already exhausted. The noise in the painting mirrors the noise inside the mind — thoughts overlapping, emotions clashing, the inability to find silence.
At its core, this piece is about wanting escape. Not drama, not destruction — just the desire to move into a blank space where nothing hurts, nothing echoes, and nothing demands energy. A place where feeling, seeing, and hearing can finally stop for a moment or perhaps for ever.
The Way You Make Me Feel is not about blame or romance. It’s about mental fatigue, emotional confusion, and the quiet struggle of trying to survive your own thoughts while still wanting to move forward or just called a life.
“The Way You Make Me Feel” — by MAAS
This painting takes its title from the song by Michael Jackson, but the feeling behind it lives in a very different place. For me, it speaks about the chaos of a non-functional relationship — when both sides are trying, but confusion, timing, and emotional weight make connection impossible.
The face is fragmented, restless, overloaded with colour and tension. It reflects how depression creeps in during the lowest moments, how past trauma and the PTSD from my career resurface when I’m already exhausted. The noise in the painting mirrors the noise inside the mind — thoughts overlapping, emotions clashing, the inability to find silence.
At its core, this piece is about wanting escape. Not drama, not destruction — just the desire to move into a blank space where nothing hurts, nothing echoes, and nothing demands energy. A place where feeling, seeing, and hearing can finally stop for a moment or perhaps for ever.
The Way You Make Me Feel is not about blame or romance. It’s about mental fatigue, emotional confusion, and the quiet struggle of trying to survive your own thoughts while still wanting to move forward or just called a life.