Body

Now that I am looking at this work again after a while, I guess it would be considered a 'winter depression' when things are bad in winter, they are really bad and this work proves that for me.

I handed this in late, my description for it was - "the reason I didn't go to art school for weeks"

Which basically was drug abuse and feeling sorry for myself for it. 

Now I'll go into a bit more detail about it.

I basically skived the whole duration of this project titled "body" and instead I sat in my room for weeks doing drugs and drinking. I was also going through a wave of feeling like I need to see someone about my health issues earlier that semester, I'd waited for them to send me a form for a while and during the time I was on a drug binge the form finally arrived. It triggered me into feeling really awful even though I was a lot better. I filled the form in and was going to send it, it got ripped and damaged whilst I was on my drug binge and I decided to just hand the form in as my "body" final piece. 

I had some friends getting fucked up with me some nights, and I taught them to draw sounds - that is what the marks are on the form. I got them to draw on small bits of paper to some songs and people speaking.

I then eventually got a grip and sobered myself up, went to art school and came up with an idea. I scanned the drawings into photoshop, removed backgrounds and printed, instead of paper I printed on the form, handed it all in the original envelope.