Therapy Art

So here's the part where all of my children groan LOL. I think sometimes art should make you uncomfortable, it should make you think. You don't have to like it, that's totally okay, but some art you should at least try to understand what the artist is trying to convey and appreciate it for that.

Most of my art is easy, pleasurable, comfortable even. However, the majority of my therapy art, is none of those things. Very few have seen most of my therapy art, and that's okay, I don't do it for others, I do it for me. It's very much a release.

My thought in doing this, is that the hand print represents the mask of depression. I feel like I should fix her hair, make her look nice and presentable. Quite often people who suffer with mental illnesses hide it so well that you don't even know that they're suffering.

I always wonder when I do therapy art like this is how many others do similar things and wouldn't it be awesome and powerful and amazing if we could all do a show and display it all in an attempt to show the world what it looks like to live inside our heads in some way.