Image Harvest 2024

Monsters With Mental Health Issues





A series of animated GIFs visualizing mental health issues as monsters, exploring the coexistence between people and their inner struggles through motion, texture, and character-driven design.





For the Image Harvest Show at MICA, I created a series of four GIFs titled Mental Illnesses – Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, and Schizophrenia. In this series, I illustrated mental health issues as monster figures. To me, these monsters are living entities that exist alongside people, sometimes appearing next to them, and other times transforming into them. They are everywhere. We can find ways to coexist with them or learn how to navigate their presence, though I also welcome other interpretations of these creatures.
Bipolar
Anxiety
Depression
Schizophrenia








Image Harvest Show 2024 - Monsters With Mental Health Issues
My deep interest in psychology and mental health drove this project. I want people to pay more attention to both their physical and emotional well-being, and I hope my work can help foster understanding of these issues. 





In the end, I hope everyone’s well and good

Monsters. They lurk around us—or sometimes, within us. Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, Schizophrenia… These are terms we hear more frequently. But what are they? Should we be afraid? Should we worry? Or is there a way to coexist with them?

   


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