Friday, June 2, 2017

Artistic License: Drawing myself as monsters

Sometimes I feel like a madwoman, the rest of the time I just feel anxious


I don't know if it's me and that's the difficulty of anxious feelings. I don't know if it's me and it's not always me. Sometimes the thing I'm worrying about and being paranoid about is completely real.

I try really hard at everything I do. I always want to do the right thing. That's it. No ulterior motive here. I'm just trying to do the right things. Trying to do the right thing isn't always enough.

Figuring out a way to express the way I feel with a single image can be deeply therapeutic because I have to conceptualize the way I feel into a visual representation. As someone who has a significant history with emotional numbing and disassociation, it's hard for me to directly confront my own emotions. But when I face the emotions by drawing my bad feelings as the internal monsters they are, I feel better.

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