DearBish is a conceptual visual artist whose practice spans editorial, portraiture, and fine art photography. His newest work, Shadows of Normalcy, explores the emotional terrain of the stages of loss through a highly stylized and psychologically layered lens. This first personal editorial traces the emotional landscapes of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, each rendered in intimate visual metaphors where soft aesthetics meet emotional dissonance. Each stage is treated as its own emotional universe, layered with contradiction, internal tension, and unspoken vulnerability, where the familiar becomes estranged. From the distorted realities of denial to the quiet fury of anger and the soft engulfment of depression, the series reveals how loss can both disorient and ground. His work invites viewers into a suspended world where grief and loss become both a mirror and a medium. Drawing on visual strategies of minimalism and symbolic abstraction, Bish utilizes posture, gaze, repetition, and color to create emotionally charged compositions. Fabric becomes a second skin, color a psychological temperature, and the body a vessel of dissonance. This work marks a shift toward a more intimate mode of visual poetry.

The loneliness my father had to endure as he was trying to survive in his world. The moments he wished he could’ve been a part of, the care he wished he could’ve put into my life. This series is about my father‘s love for me and the agonizing pain of him not getting to experience it earlier.

Visiting my home country, Nepal, after a decade.

The gut wrenching feeling of helplessness when a panic attack surged in felt like home to me. this time however it felt hostile, life threatening even. My survival instinct kicked in and the only thing I could think of was to document what was happening in case it were my final moments. As an artist, this was my survival.