Mock up

I have began to mock up what I imagine my images to look like in a gallery space. For me, my strongest image at the moment is the centre one of scratching. The marks on my skin as well as the chipped nail varnish is not what we usually see when looking at portrait images. I want the audience to feel unfordable when looking at my images and by having them large scale and ‘in your face’ means they cannot ignore the issue of mental health.

Now that the visuals of my images appear to be more coherent, I want to really focus on what I am trying to say with my work. I want the viewers to begin to understand what it feels like to suffer with a mental illness. I am starting to do this in a number of ways such as showing the mental pain in a psychical way through the scratching images or representing how it feels to suffer with depersonalisation disorder.