Daniyyel Ironside is a Scottish intermedia artist whose practice bridges research and creation, centering on the fragmentation of subjective experience. Through drawing and montage, they explore themes of love, identity, and utopia, drawing on thinkers like Ernst Bloch and Bracha Ettinger to frame art as a space for trans-subjective emergence—where gestures, imperfections, and proximity reveal our shared vulnerability.

In Ironside’s work, meaning is not declared but felt. Their drawings resist strict narrative, using disjointed lines and symbolic fragments to create emotional resonance rather than linear clarity. This refusal to resolve—this embrace of ambiguity—allows viewers to encounter the work affectively, guided by their own emotional intelligence and personal experience.

For Ironside, Obscured Organisms speaks to the ways we are shaped—and concealed—by identity, culture, and expectation. Their compositions unravel these layers not to expose a fixed truth, but to create space for co-affectation, touch, and the fragile connections that bind us. Through fragmentation, they make room for perception to soften, shift, and ultimately, expand.