P r o s · t h e · s i s
an artificial device to replace or augment a missing or impaired part of the body.
Everyone feels anxiety differently and in different places.
For me, it’s my chest, shoulders and stomach where i feel it the worst.
I get tight, cramping feelings, my chest and shoulders feel physically heavy and almost painful, it gets hard to breathe and think.
I created this piece to represent and visualise my experience with anxiety.
It shows how an invisible illness, like mental illness, is often much more serious than it appears on the surface.
I have handwritten words which I associate with anxiety, across certain areas of the piece to add clarity and more depth of emotion.
