Drowning Series

In September of 2023 I produced a self-portrait series of 10 photos called drowning about mental health and how stress can become overwhelming for us. My artist statement. For these series of photos I was trying to conceptualize how I was feeling at the time and how many others may feel, with the feeling of drowning or suffocation as I’m writing this out it seems really off and not mentally good but that’s the point I wasn’t going to go easy on this one with the idea being to spread awareness that people do feel this and that things can get overwhelming with water symbolizing the mental work load of someone with the stress and thoughts taking over getting higher and higher until you eventually start to drown in it, with it consuming drowning you slowly with the body or mind eventually succumbing to the world. That was the concept and theme for these photos that I tilted drowning. I achieved my goal by using fake blood, body paint, flowers a bath full of water and artificial lighting from two light bars to achieve then after taking them in raw I put them into lightroom to edited then exported them in jpg to upload them.