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Collected Item: “"Hope Love Heal"”

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"Hope Love Heal"

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

Mail art

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.

Art can create change. The 2020 pandemic year and all its struggles informed my mail art project. My hope was that this small art project would help others in a big way through creativity and connection to the community.
My art piece titled "Hope Love Heal" is a direct response to the collective struggle. I am honored to be a part of the "We Rise" Campaign to help shed light on mental illness, mental awareness and mental well being. I hope my mail art project will touch others and let others know that they are not alone. And to remember...with a little "hope" and "love" we can "heal".

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#wellness, #hope, #love, #heal, #wellbeing, #community, #together, #transformation, #art, #creativity, #awareness

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

Deborah Lynn Irmas

Give this story a date.

2021-05-01
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