Art-Therapy

I have an ACE score of 7. ^{(thanks mum)}

I used to struggle to focus; My anxious-mind would rather be ruminating on past-traumas and percieved future-perils.

The only way I could be present in an academic environment was by doodling in the margins. Doodling, sketching, scrawling, and expressing myself in a two-inch narrow gap.

A scratchy sketch of a stick-man camping in a forest under the rain. — I was not always a happy camper

A tiny sketch on lined paper of a house about to be crushed by a boulder — I suffered from depression with a dash of impending doom.

A crude mandala-style drawing using red and black biro ink on lined-paper — Drawing repeating patterns helped to keep me grounded.

https://www.instagram.com/p/9gvY5EGepj/

It was a coping- mechanism I leaned on in my professional life.

A series of abstract drawings — With some encouragement, I broke out of the margins.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJGjxS_jHAP/

I made my way from pen & paper into Photoshop.

An abstract digital painting — I upcycled,

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTo46g0FThl/

recycled,

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZzabzDFiam/

and extrapolated.

symmetrical in form asymmetrical in colour abstract digital painting. — I’ve distilled my demons.

A series of images demonstrating styles being transferred to portraits using neural-processing — I even put it all over my big dumb face.

I’m a much happier camper now.

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