Artist: Clara Lieu : (link it)
Statement: This project is a visualization of personal experience with depression and anxiety. The condition brought on frequent episodes where I felt emotionally and physically out of control. Unable to “release” myself from these episodes, I waited for the physical limitations of my body to end them. Recounting the affected years, I realize how accustomed I became to depression’s influence; many emotions and feelings belonged to it and not my own personality. After an extended, untreated struggle, a diagnosis brought relief, and the process of unearthing myself from the disease began.
(I swear this hit me harder than anything else has in recent times. I can't even begin to explain how shockingly vivid this is to my usual state of being. I feel for their pain. I experience their pain.)