I invited 4 audience to record their everyday negative emotions in the form of sketch. It’s aim is to help them build long-term habit and learn to manage mental balance in a objective way. I encourage each audience to write down their reflection and observation of this process day by day, or directly communicate with me, which can help me track the change and learn the advantages and disadvantages of this long term intervention.
Here are some feedbacks from my audiences on this intervention:
“While painting my body and mind are occupied and I enter a state of mind flow.”
“Normally, you may deal with anxiety by staying in your room and blanking out, which doesn’t produce much. But in this way it will produce a little picture, which is a record of the moment, and you’ll kind of want to save that little picture. If you get some positive feedback, you will also feel satisfied and want to produce more.”
“When I look back at these paintings, it feels like I have many sides to myself like a book. And it feels like life is ever-changing and there’s no need to wallow in negativity.”
“It feels like painting allows me to think about the reasons for my emotional existence in a very objective way”
“It felt like a review that supported the validity of my emotions from an objective point of view.”
“This intervention will remind me of this way to express my emotions when I have negative feelings in the future. It feels like it’s easier to persevere with an artistic background.
Having a variety of ways and mediums to support creativity within the usual range of activities would help with persistence.”
This intervention is actually iterated from my previous 2 interventions, because I realized that the previous 2 intervention was a bit like a temporary tool, and I wanted to bring more sustainable impact to them.
These 3 intervention related to mental balance was a process from general test to individual focus and then long term habit.
Following is the sketch gallery of my audience’s creation. I’ll keep updating this.