Thoughts
2014
Mental illness, despite its prevalence and normalcy, continues to be misunderstood and worse, mistreated. Based on personal experience with depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, what seems to be the hardest to understand is the individuality of each person’s illness. The complex and unique chemistry of a person, along with all of their personal traits and experiences make for a completely exclusive version of any given mental illness.
Something so personal and individualized is difficult to create work about. Thoughts is an attempt to photograph my personal experiences with depression and OCD. The thoughts that control my every day are exhibited through small steel wire sculptures of convoluted scribbles. The sculptures were tied and tangled with string, and installed in the studio space to be photographed with my (wonderful) model.