The sketch was drawn when I came out of a panic attack that came from an anxiety attack. This piece is one of my most personal pieces due to how I’m putting the state of my mind into the piece.
This piece is more graphic design than photography due to how most of the work process was done in ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR [to create the typography]
I created the sketch’s text to represent a mushroom cloud, like an explosion. But later on, while creating the actual piece. I noticed that instead of creating something heavily edited manipulative Photoshop piece, I should just make it simpler since I think this process of making the text look like explosions might push it away from the main focus of the message.
This Piece formed around the idea of overthinking from anxiety and the thoughts of a people pleaser due to the abandonment issue that I was suffering from. I want to put the idea of being afraid of being left behind, this idea of being Alone as the main focus of the piece, making “ALONE” the most significant word and in the center of the bubble. I choose to make the text come out of his back because I want to create an explosion like something that can’t be held in anymore. In the piece, I covered Toxic masculinity and suicidal thoughts and self-hate, feeling invisible, the unhealthy thought, I feel like it’s impossible to cover only one subject like depression in just one piece to make it realistic. I should cover more than that.
