My art is nowhere near good but for me, what's important is it displayed what I wanted to be displayed. The message can be seen or read through the art that I've drawn/painted. This art takes inspiration from the artistic movement, Expressionism. I expressed my emotions about mental health through art, for me the black eyes of the girl resembled a state of emptiness.
In our world, we seem to take mental health or mental issues as a joke or just a person overreacting because we have never experienced it ourselves. Being depressed, having anxiety, extreme mood swings, self-blame, excessive fears, having troubles of doing the most simple things, low energy and so much more, is a serious matter. The dirty hair of the girl showed that having issues or needing help can impact even the things that we usually do everyday, like combing our hair or having good hygiene. The girl also portrayed hiding her sadness behind a smile and that's what we usually see everyday. Everyday we see people happy or smiling but we don't know what they might be going through. We don't know what's in their heads, the struggle that they are trying to defeat. They are just pretending because they don't want to talk or they have no one to talk to and maybe that's because they also don't trust people or maybe they'll feel like they won't be accepted or no one can understand them. The doubts. Many doubts that they have. All I can say is, be kind. Be kind to everyone. Check on your friends, your family or even the people that is around you or even the happiest people.
Everyone is going through every ups and downs of life and even getting crazy in the head and there is no guarantee that we will understand them but what's important is that they'll know that they are not alone. That you are there, and it's okay to feel that way. It's okay to be sad, or angry, or to have mood swings or to not understand yourself. We just have to take it, step by step, little by little. The pain might not be gone today or tomorrow or even the next month but someday it will. As time passes, we will learn how to value ourselves, our life and deal with stress. One day it will all make sense, and we will have a perspective and a dream and we will learn to love.
