I know from personal experience the therapy of putting negative things in your life into art, usually the worse the feeling the more emotive and hard hitting the art is. Katie Crawford has created stunning images from her battle with anxiety and depression. The photos are simple and beautiful and it presents a golden opportunity to understand something she suffers from or a chance to say me too.
"I want the photographs and their paired writings to begin to express the constant, overwhelming presence of anxiety. It's not always terrifying, it's not always strong and it's not always intense, but it's always close by."
Below are a few chosen images from the series and their accompanying text, chosen purely because they spoke to me the most. To view them all and to read Katie's thoughts behind the images click here.
they keep telling me to breathe. i can feel my chest moving up and down. up and down. up and down. but why does it feel like i'm suffocating? i hold my hand under my nose, making sure there is air. i still can't breathe.
a captive of my own mind. the instigator of my own thoughts. the more i think, the worse it gets. the less i think, the worse it gets. breathe. just breathe. drift. it'll ease soon.
no matter how much i resist, it'll always be right here desperate to hold me, cover me, break down with me. each day i fight it, "you're not good for me and you never will be". but there it is waiting for me when i wake up and eager to hold me as i sleep. it takes my breath away. it leaves me speechless.
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