PHOTOTHERAPY

Amy Zhong

My project is portraying the two conflicting sides of my mind surrounding my personal anxieties about the COVID-19 crisis. I chose a faucet for the first two images because it reminded me about the necessity of washing your hands to lower risk of catching the virus.  The second set of images are some of the materials I use to complete my school work (a planner, a textbook, a notebook). The first image with the books scattered messily represents how I feel when I do my work in an anxious state of mind, while the second image with the books stacked neatly represents how I feel when I am doing work in a more stable mindset. I got the idea of this project from an art therapy class where we used photography to express our emotional state. In that photography class, I used a blurry building to symbolize my confused and anxious state and a stable building to symbolize my calmer state of mind. Phototherapy lets me see my emotions from a more objective viewpoint, since I am looking at it from an outside perspective rather than experiencing it completely within my own head.