Running Blind BIG 5

In Running Blind, I turn iconic wildlife into animated avatars caught mid-sprint, literally covering their own eyes. The gesture is simple, but the emotion is not. It is overwhelm. It is panic dressed up as momentum. It is the weirdly familiar human trick of running faster when you feel you have less room to breathe.

These characters are shown from the inside out. They cannot “perform” their fear, happiness, or anger for us, so I give those emotions a body and a posture. The lion’s mane becomes a blindfold. The elephant’s ears become shutters. The cheetah’s paws become denial in motion. Under the polish and the beauty sits a blunt message: our encroachment turns instinct into alarm, and habitat into a shrinking corridor.

"Exploring emotional states through animated avatars"

Running Blind is my way of making the silent emotional life of animals visible, and asking whether we can respect the land enough to stop sprinting toward imbalance.