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A PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL DIARY, 2019-2020

ink pen, pastel, pencil crayon

This series is a record of personal narratives and human interactions, most of which are seen through the lenses of mental illness and trauma. These small drawings (~ 9 x 6 cm per drawing) are windows into intimate spaces and their portable nature is a metaphor for the memories I carry, both public and private, beautiful and terrible, harmonious and chaotic, delicate and intense, and light and dark. The body is a site of tension between these dichotomies, and the exterior environment is transformed into a mindspace. I created part of this series while living in Scotland.  Here, I carefully document moments of companionship, loneliness, mental illness, faith, and emotion from a transformative year in my young adult life.

MOVIE NIGHT

VULNERABILITY

SCOTT

AFTER A CEILIDH AT THE BRAES

GROWING SWEETNESS

AN ODE TO SEAGULLS

COMFORT FOOD

FROM HEARTBREAK CITY TO QUARANTINE

BEFORE A CEILIDH AT FLAT 56

CEILIDH

TOWER BUILDING CAFE BLUES

THERE ARE STARS IN THE SPACE BELOW

NAIVE

PACIFIERS

OPENING

EVENING WINE IN THE STUDIO

SAFEKEEPING

PRESSING YOUR WOUNDS TO MY WOUNDS

OASIS OF PEACE

HOUSE IN A TREE

RESEARCH

A TORTURED MIND

THE PENCIL IS HER TOOL. THE BOOK IS HER CANVAS. BRANCHES DIVIDE BUT ALSO CONNECT. FIRE DESTROYS BUT ALSO PURIFIES

SURVIVAL STORY

GRASPING SPACE

MY FIRST DAY ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS

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