Sadness is Orange - Ma Machine d'Emotions

‘Ma Machine d´Emotions’ is the story of a man wrestling with how to express his emotions, who then builds a gigantic, unbelievably complex machine in which he conceals a special emotion that only she for whom it is intended will be able to discover: a secret message meant for one particular person hidden amidst the organised chaos of 523 different emotions.

The story centres on a gigantic man figure depicted kneeling on a wooden chair, who clasps an enormous humming top in his claws, on which the 523 emotions are classified according to a complex order of prime numbers, categories, colours, symbols, languages and texts. Detailed pen drawings depict the machine and the man and the individual emotions and their interconnections.

The mask, 'Sadness is Orange', is one of the key artworks of the Machine.