Pain and Release

"Pain" is a visual through depression, loss, anxiety, and pain. It is showing how easy it is to hide the pain that you might be going through. Everyone goes through all different types of pain. One of the biggest pains is depression and feeling disconnected from the world, better yet, feeling alone, even though you might have people who will always be there for you. It's easy to put on a happy face even though the voices in your head are telling you that you're not enough. Going through pain alone is not easy in the slightest. We look in a mirror every day and see the inner you trying to fight the battle of the pain that we have going on inside our heads. The pain might be through loss, whether it's a death or a friendship, the pain might be from news that you got from a family member, or you were just let go. The pain will be there, but will you let it take over your life? You wonder, “Why Does it Hurt?” Well, why does it?

"Release." There are many ways people relieve pain. I wanted to show 2 different ways, but in a more symbolic way. The burning of the negativities that have been taking over their lives and the release of the weight off their shoulders. Being able to release that mental pain that has been ruling your life is an amazing way to be able to move forward with one’s life, so you're not consistently living with it every day.