Struggle of Self

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Kiara H.

Digital

• Artist Statement

  Originally named "The Puppet and Her Puppeteer," this piece depicts the struggle of living with anxiety paired with obsessive-compulsive thoughts and patterns. Often, it can feel like your brain is the puppet master, and you are strung up in the air as it whispers cruel thoughts, hoping it won't pull too hard on the strings. I changed the name because it doesn't quite represent the hardest part; there is no outside intrusion, no other person twisting and tangling the strings—there is only you, your thoughts, and what you do with them.

• Creative Statement

  Everyone has ideas, fleeting thoughts about what they could do, be, see, or create. Creativity, to me, is capturing those ideas and forming them into reality. Of taking the horrible mess of emotion and fervor that is inside every person and turning it into something beautiful.