Becoming Feral by Darcy Whent

By (author): Darcy Whent

Title: Becoming Feral

Subtitle: How to stay soft

Blurb:

Becoming Feral (How to Stay Soft) enters the non-descriptive, liminal zone between girlhood and womanhood—a psychological terrain where identity flickers, doubles back, and refuses to stabilise. In this threshold space, Darcy Whent’s practice becomes a form of emotional cartography: mapping the moments where softness mutates, where memory distorts, where the self becomes both animal and archive.

Working through painting, drawing, and fragmented narrative, Whent probes the quiet psychological ruptures that shape becoming: the unspoken expectations placed on young women, the inherited stories that cling to the body, and the feral instinct that emerges when tenderness is threatened. Her figures—horses, dogs, shadow-selves, spectral young women—inhabit this in-between state, neither fully past nor present, symbol nor self. They operate as markers of the subconscious, embodiments of the internal negotiations that define her work.

This book offers a rare insight into Whent’s process: an excavation of the ambiguous spaces she paints from, where memory and autofiction blur, where childhood myth bleeds into adult truth, and where softness must be relearned as a form of resistance.

Becoming Feral (How to Stay Soft) is a psychological and visual meditation on inhabiting the threshold—on becoming, unbecoming, and finding ferality in the fragile act of staying soft.

ISBN: 978-87-7620-664-2

Book language: English

Publishing house: Snap Collective

Website: www.snap-collective.com

Editorial Assistant: Natalia Manole

Designer: Tea Jagodic

Published on: in production

Category: Art

Price (€): 129

Keywords: Liminal, Memory, Autofiction, Inheritance, Ferality, Softness, Threshold, Girlhood, Womanhood, Myth, Rupture, Spectral, Tenderness, Distortion, Subconscious, Fragmentation, Reconstruction, Emotional architecture