LaShae Boyd is a contemporary mixed media artist known primarily for making figurative work using acrylic, oil, and collage. Boyd’s staged subjects depict her own unique visual language of dissecting the human psyche, leading to a spiritual, transcendent experience. She takes influence from Carl Jung’s theory of the “shadow self” (repressed feelings of pain and fear left unacknowledged) and utilizes it as a source for creating balance between the conscious and unconscious aspects of self. Art movements, such as Expressionism and Surrealism, also influence Boyd; she implements a brightly saturated, complementary color-based palette to define each magenta monochromatic-skinned subject as a peculiar human who’s having a spiritual experience while undergoing introspection. Boyd collages intentionally distorted digital photographs of her subject to expose their “inner darkness” waiting to be embraced. Drawing from the aesthetics of Pop Art, she repetitively outlines the subject’s body and uses negative space silhouettes to figuratively add layers to her narratives. Boyd creates with an urge to offer space for conversations surrounding self-transformation under a metaphysical microscope.