Life
LiTong L.
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This piece is made to communicate with my parents. I am not good with words so I tried to tell them my inner thoughts with this piece. To seek support from them to help me with depression and anxiety. There are 3 parts to this piece and the flower represents me.
Here is a poem that goes with the art piece
Youth running around with childhood friends playing jump rope until sundown walking around without any sense of worry or danger for what’s to come the flower starting to sprout out of the ground a flower awaiting to blossom the happiest time of my life with endless dreams for the future.
Hope
half of my flower blooming spreading out its divine petals showing its hope and felicity another half withered away, exhausted of school, responsibility, trauma, anxiety, and depression doing homework listening to cars pass by crying in silence when parents are asleep but still staying strong because of him keeping the flower alive a half-dead flower.
Fear just like a flower I never thought that I would be able to stay alive to this day thought that I wouldn't survive till 17 the future holds infinite possibilities I can be an elegant flower standing taller than every other flower or one that’s been withered away into the dry dirt.
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Growing up in a family where mental health is taboo, I never had an outlet to express my feelings. That was until I joined an internship where it focus on art activism. During the internship, I found my outlet through drawing and painting. It's my escape from life and helps me express my feelings.
