AP Art:
My Journey in Mental Health:
Throughout my 15 pieces I am creating a storyline representing my journey with mental health and to show how I got through it. I have dealt with my own mental illness and have gone through many ups and downs. I have been diagnosed with bipolar, depression, anxiety and OCD and I want to illustrate this throughout my pieces and how I’ve dealt with it. Visually in all my pieces I am going to paint/draw a self-portrait where there are people and I am also going to pull elements from one piece to another.
1. "I am fine. No I'm not ok."
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2. "It feels like a lonely world"
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3. "Bottling up my feelings"
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In this piece I wanted to represent me bottling up my feelings. A lot of times I tend to ignore the negative comments that upset me and then it starts building up and leading to my next piece I let my frustration and anger out. As you can see in my piece, I drew a b