What is mental about health?

 

Storey Art.

What is mental about health?

Arran Storey.

What is mental about health?

Digital Photograph 1920 x 1280

by Arran Storey

2020

In the mind of Arran.

In this piece I have used photography, something that I have gotten into in my time at Huntlyburn. This is a psychiatric ward for mental health. It has woodland areas surrounding it and it's a lovely escape from modern day life. I think its a nice opposition between something nature and something clinical. I like how free I become here - I really do find myself. I took a photograph of myself in my room with a slow shutter speed. Which elludes to the disfigurement of the self which is an indication to the thought process of a "delusion" and to the feelings of the surroundings. After the photograph was taken I edited it a little further. In the photograph it's a self portrait documenting the time I had here. I'm perched on a chair in my room looking out the window. That really is my time inside. When exploring the grounds its really exhilarating such as sitting in the garden or taking care of the vegtables growing or sitting or smoking on the green that they have or even little wanders around the place. In the photograph this is opposed in terms of surrounding such as the background demonstrates the clinical aspect of room.

Arran Storey.