After choosing ‘We are Merely Here’ for a title, I came up with a quote which I feel sums the project up perfectly – ‘What if we destroy nature the way we destroy ourselves’. It ties together the human and nature link as well as exploring mental health.
When suffering with a mental illness we are often self destructive and I want to show this destruction through not only self portraits but also the destroying of nature. I want the viewer to question the statement – Humans are constantly destroying themselves, but would we destroy nature in the same way?
Because of wanting this quote to appear within the book, I have decided to change the title of the book as I feel it no longer represents what I am trying to say. I now want to call the book simply ‘I am destroyed.’ The title is obviously has a link to mental health and self destruction, yet when paired with nature images it makes the viewer question what the book is really about.
Final Major Project Kirsty Powell 