• Recently I have been going through an incredibly difficult time due to being cyberbullied through Instagram. I don't know the person at all, have never spoken to them or met them, but through their own jealousy of the experiences I have had with my favourite band they have started to attack me and my Guide Dog through their instagram stories spreading lies about me. It has really revealed another side of the internet and fandom to me. I never get too involved in social spaces for anything like this to happen and have no provoked anybody. It has come out of nowhere so I feel caught off guard.
• It is especially troubling and terrifying that it happened around the time of the anniversary of Sophie Lancaster's murder, who was targeted for being different and part of a subculture as I do
• "Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks" Shannon L. Adler
• After my main instagram was compromised, separate from my art instagram, I took some time to contemplate jealousy, hatred, the internet in all of its parts, and society. This was also an opportunity for me to put art therapy into practice. How can I subvert what has happened to me and reframe it into positive outcomes? How can I put a container on this incredibly traumatic situation and use art therapy as a tool to heal and develop? What modalities can I use? Rewiring how I operate.
• Thinking of computer chips and motherboards, made up of colour palettes of red, green and black, I adopted an art therapist approach to making to work through my traumatic experience and self-direct a brief of a series of monoprints. Implementing my authorial practice, inspired by Peony Gent, I also channelled into words how I felt: I am alone in a battle. I am the girl who cannot see.
• Using rough textured paper, acrylics and a gelatine plate I spread paint to blue worlds and circumstances with a rough hair-dye brush, creating an interesting, blocky visual language depicting a degrading, eroding, derogatory environment that eventually turns to complete darkness.
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