This research for this project began on a few flashcards. My professor [for a class called What Really Matters] use to assign our class TedTalks to listen to and write reflections about.. [The course was alright, but] I found writing my thoughts about what I was hearing very helpful and mind-opening. Thus, after finishing the assignments, I guess I just got lost on TedTalk.com, researching revolutionary ideas and complex topics, specifically about mental health and technology. I eventually moved from TedTalks to Netflix documentaries, to Audible. After listening to so many videos and documentaries, and jotting down so many notes on small flashcards, and throwing them all over my desk… I realized how cool all the information I was learning was, and how helpful it would be if I were able to go back on all this information in a seamless and convenient way in the future. I figured putting this all on a canvas would be a good idea, and I would be able to hang it up somewhere I walk by often when it's done. so I began writing my notes on canvas. The cut-out pieces of paper that are glued on and look like they are sticking out are the notes that I initially took when I began the research. After I found myself with a bunch of eerie-like, deep, and quite uncomfortably true words on six 8x12" canvases, I figured it needed some brightening up. I added glitter to more important messages that I liked throughout the study, and some color to shapes I found intriguing and eye-catching. I also added color to the ideas I found helpful for me to apply to life in my future (which is kind of my way of highlighting main points/critical concepts). Indeed, most of the content is beyond intense. Unfortunately, that seems to be the vibe manifested in the studies of the human body and the human brain, which is understandable to me ("happiness" is relative… you need to be sad in order to know what brings happiness… the field of psychiatry basically dives into the underlying reasons of this statement… thus going into this, I knew it wasn't going to be the happiest study). However, there are brighter sides to nearly everything in life. Therefore, as I tried to record the unfortunate realities we (humans) are living in, I also tried to do my best in recording ways to look at thoughts, feelings, emotions, and the meaning of life in a more optimistic way, to give my viewer (…primarily me…) healthy practices and a string of hope

Below are some images of the process 🧚‍♀️. You can see the way it went from ideas on flashcards, to sharpies on a canvas. From 2 canvases, to 4, and then to 6. Many dark long nights, considerable thoughts, learning, figures (actually used another book called 9 Heads to learn how to draw physical figures ahhh). I definitely appreciate the journey. It was a super informative, exciting, and memorable experience.