• a walk in the park

    february 2019 - june 2019

    published october 2019

  • about.

    I started making this in February to experiment with vulnerability while tracking personal development through the most intense period of depression that I have ever dealt with. My intention at the start of this episode was to view this round of depression through a different light, exploring each emotion and inviting in feelings in the hopes that doing so would help me learn about myself and my sadness. Every day was hell until, after months of work, it wasn’t. I became honest and analyzed the ways I was making my own life more difficult while also giving myself permission to feel things. I was truthful with myself, my friends, my family, and my therapist. I wanted to create something tactile to represent my growth and, in a final act of vulnerability, share it with others when I was feeling better. I took my time compiling these entries, as revisiting this season of my life was very eye-opening, but also very painful.

     

    This is what I made during that cycle, and now it is yours.