Captivity art

Miserable living conditions and hushed-up attacks on humans. Is it time to kick swimming with dolphins off the bucket list?

Trapped inside my own head.... Life's problems when you can't escape your own mind

• • Visual metaphors: graphic resources that are used to symbolise memories, situations or feelings. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

photograph by Mathieu Faria-Fernandes

6. This emotional illustration depicts a forlorn woman who feels trapped within herself similar to the character of Jane Eyre.

Upon viewing 12 Years a Slave I am reminded of my years of concerted avoidance and disassociation. I have been afraid to look truth in the eyes. I’ve been choosing side-glances of reality. I’ve nee…

you hold it in you're hands...

Admittedly, I’d had some stressful and shitty things happen over the past few months. However, I realized within minutes of waking up that morning that I had been making a habit of being sad. I hadn’t just been reminding others that I was going to be sad that month, I had actually been reminding myself that I was supposed to be sad, too.