Pieces I'm working on

For my studio seminar this semester I have taken on the task of visualizing the stages of depression as I experienced them. Here are few pieces that I've been working on...

Acknowledgment, acrylic on canvas with rope

Occluded thoughts making life
thinking, processing, working
like digging under
like trying to breach
an impregnable wall,
no, not a wall
a labyrinth.
Walls seemingly slight
begging to be stepped over,
forgotten.
Not myself
at every turn
I work
slow unsteady
not winning
until acknowledgment,
and then
slow but steady
I return
from beneath
layers
levels
of well-fed lies
of my no longer deniable
Depression.


Regression, acrylic, rope shreds and acrylic mediums

I'm not sure if Regression is done yet. I haven't written a poem to accompany it either. But the idea is that you think you have escaped your depression, that you are cured forever. Then, layer by unsuspecting layer you regress as the signs of your depression return. I think this one needs a little something else. We'll see.