Type and Metaphor
"Depression is fighting a duel with an invisible enemy. Depression is a thick fog. Depression is waterboarding your soul. Depression is a ghost in denial. Depression is being faced with a dense forest to get through without a map. We walk around aimlessly. Traveling forwards, backwards, and sideways. Knowing nothing of survival in a dangerous wilderness alone. No compass. No water. No supplies. We try everything we can think of in effort to simply escape the woods. Try to go to the Other Side. Some of us die of exhaustion." Using a combination of words, letters, phonetics, syllables, and letters - I tackle the subject of mental health and express the uncomfortable, dragging, tedious side of depression & anxiety and the cyclical loops that seem to feed off each other. The colors so similar in tonal value, making them appear to vibrate and harass the eye to distinguish between the two, represents the annoying repetition of the same feelings coming up and going back down into the other again and again. Trapping your eye for a moment.