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Collected Item: “Mental Health in a Pandemic, 2020”

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Mental Health in a Pandemic, 2020

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Drawing

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

“It represents my mental health in the sense that the muddled background color represents all the “crappy” things going on in the world, and the chaotic lines also represent that, but they are the more pressing matters. The chaotic lines also connect to the head, representing the way everything got to me and in my head during this, and gave me a very jealous outlook on life, because there were a lot of people better off than I was, mentally, physically, financially, even though I was not in THAT bad of a place comparatively to others. Also the different textures between watercolor, pencil, and pen is representative of the different layers and different things going on in my life all at once. I really utilized the symbolism of things as well as playing with different textures in a cohesive way to represent myself and my feelings in a more abstract way.” -Sydney Avtges's response to when I asked her how her drawing represents her mental state during the pandemic.

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#HST241 #CovidMiniCollection #Suffolk #MentalHealth #HardTimes

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Sydney Avtges

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2020-12-08
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