Feeling Blue

I had been falling into a bit of a rut during April 2020 of the lock down. A mixture of the isolation and being back home so unexpectedly. Expressing myself through art is a distraction and a form of letting my feelings out a bit. I painted myself blue on the outside to show how blue I felt on the inside,

However, while editing these photographs that were originally representing my low mood and how I felt like giving up, I played around with the coloring. Taking away the blue made the markings on my skin look more like some kind of war paint. There is a beautiful irony in that.