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My sustained investigation focuses on the intense and consuming emotion of depression and how it affects an individual when they are in isolation. With the global pandemic completely turning our lives upside down one's mind can completely take over when forced to be aloof from society and people in general. After personally experiencing a depressive state during quarantine in the height of the pandemic, I tried to portray the different feelings through the numerous areas in art, design, and photography. 

The representation of chaos and the state of being overwhelmed through collages (1,4,8,9) symbolizes a glimpse into one's mind and their attempts to mock emotions like happiness and joy. Shifting the focus of art from collage to portraits (2,3), the subject expresses fatigue and apathy, juxtaposing inside one's mind versus their portrayal of themselves to society. Revising my digital images with photoshop overlay (5,6,7,10,11,12) aided me in expressing one's responses to isolation through experimentation. Intense color (13,15) immerses the viewer into the raw emotion of the photograph. 

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