So, this might come as a surprise, but this long overdue. The original turn in date was either early December or late November, to give you an idea of how late this is, but I've finally finished it. After turning this in, I should be entirely caught up in my art class and ready to move on to my next piece.
Once again, my concentration is Everyday Prisons. The prison I chose to explore with this piece is the prison of mental illness. There's this continues idea propagated throughout our culture that unless you've a broken bone or you're vomiting--visible illnesses--then you're not sick. Needless to say, that's an incredibly exclusive concept as there are so many mental illnesses that people deal with every day, but because of this stigma it often isolates said victims because their ailments aren't perceivable to the naked eye. With this piece, I intended to explore how the sicknesses many of us experience in our minds push us away from others and often prevent us from feeling anything other than loneliness in numerous social situations. I did this by putting this young man in a normally populated surrounding, aka school, but removed the usual crowd that would be seen, aka students. Instead of being surrounded by other people, he's surrounded by his illness which in turn spawns from his own mind.
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