Project 3 - part 1

For weeks I struggled with ideas for this project. I was having what seemed to be a constant anxiety attack. I couldn't think straight, I couldn't sleep well. I was struggling with more than just school.

I had a few ideas go in and out of my head about projects about anxiety. I thought about possible ideas using a fish bowl, putting things inside that bowl as they were trapped and we stared at it like it was a piece in a gallery. (Which, hypothetically, it is...)

After a few weeks of hating my ideas and feeling really lost, I decided to start with putting things in jars instead of a fish bowl, putting multiple things inside a jar. I thought about putting them inside some sort of cabinet, something that opens up to reveal it is much more than what it appears.

As the week went by, I collected a few things at a time. Sometimes I wasn't sure if I was going to even use them, but I thought they'd be cool somehow. I got 6 jars, some labels on strings, and some small stringed lights. I decided that instead of putting bad things inside the jars, to keep good things inside them as to preserve them, things that I didn't want to let get away from me.

This picture is actually upside down for some reason,
but it shows the idea I had to put them inside something.

This picture shows my anxiety word map, the idea for the label, the jars and I had thought about a suitcase or brief case like box.