Following my project based around portraiture, which was centred around identity and how a subject is represented, I started this project with a similar approach. Emotion and feeling is still a prominent theme although it is displayed by both the body language and facial/stylistic features used in my portraits.
Facial expressions in portraits can communicate a lot to the viewer, however the stance and pose of the figure gives a more direct, spontaneous, subconscious impression of the subjects current emotional state - the same impressions we use on a day-to-day basis to intuitively guess what someone may be feeling.