Swirling with colour and contradiction, Delirium is a meditation on the beautiful disorder of the mind unbound. Inspired by the character Delirium from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, the work moves like a shifting internal sky—wild, luminous, and full of feeling too large for words.
At the top left, a soft cloud in pale lavender and mint holds the quiet presence of Dream—stillness amidst the chaos. It offers a moment of breath, a place of imagined clarity within the storm. Below and to the right, a sliver of Desire pulses through the shimmering golds and coral strokes—warm, magnetic, and just beyond grasp. It flickers like temptation, a longing both tender and consuming. And then there is the streak of Destruction, vivid and unapologetic in bright orange—cutting across the composition like a sudden rupture, reminding us that transformation often arrives through fracture.
The painting is full of movement—windswept brushstrokes, soft drips, and iridescent glimmers that evoke fleeting thoughts and emotional weather. Like Delirium herself, it resists linearity. It is not a place to understand but to feel, to wander, to dissolve and re-form.
In Delirium, Emma Kate invites us into the tender mess of being alive when the self is fluid, and when colour speaks more truth than language ever could.