Psychological Landscapes (Ongoing)

Psychological Landscapes was birthed out of a want to explore the internal mind, and my own personal journey with anxiety and depression. These staged landscapes are an attempt at visually recreating the visceral feeling I get when in especially terrible bouts of mental struggle. I find my mental illness to feel incredibly isolating, and see it as an overwhelming and overbearing aspect of my life. I found myself attracted to large, concrete, worn down, or abandoned structures as a great allegory for this feeling. Using mainly myself as the subject, I insert myself into these larger-than-life, industrial settings in situations of struggle or pain. Through this, I feel I am able to convey the overwhelming effort that is made internally and perpetually when it comes to mental illnesses. By also making use of an external flash, I further create an environment that feels unnatural and harsh. I have also included some W.I.P's involving nature and body parts, as these early works led me visually to the psychological landscapes, yet do not warrant their own project.