The following work is dedicated to developing a better understanding of my own personal relationship with mental health. I do not want to enforce my thoughts and beliefs onto anyone, but rather get people to reflect on their own subconscious minds and how they experience the world. Nobody can truly empathise with you as only your mind holds the vast context of personal thoughts, memories and experiences that make up your subconscious. 

 

This space is a design studio. A space to help navigate the mind through an ever expanding landscape of thoughts, whose boundaries are uncertain. We hold infinite amounts of phrases, images and feelings that remain in suspension in our minds. These thoughts exist as monuments at varying scales, weights, and the shadows they cast. Monuments to the imagination. Once these thoughts are materialised, they become tangible.

 

It is important that each thought is considered in relation to the wider context of thoughts and memories that exist in this horizonless landscape. No thought can be deconstructed in isolation.  

 

As humans, we strive for maturity. Not maturity in the terms of the valuation of our personality, but maturity in our ability to divide ourselves into two halves; ‘the man who suffers and the mind which creates’. This separation of the ‘personal’ and the ‘impersonal’, in theory, gives us freedom for our mind to digest thoughts, emotions, and experiences.

 

This studio space will assist in grounding irrational, volatile, fragile and subjective thoughts, through deconstructing them and stitching them back together with a rational objective framework, to achieve a balanced reconstruction of the information. In short it is a three phase process; Grounding, Deconstructing and Stitching.