Eli Kelso Final

The past 6 months have been nothing short of a cliff dive off the peak of the alps. I suffered a severe mental health episode in December. The struggle continued throughout spring break and once I was stuck in a place I couldn’t leave it only got worse. There wasn’t a lot that could genuinely even invoke a reaction from me. But collectively taking a hobby and adding purpose and context to it to allow me to better understand it has helped me in ways I can’t even begin to describe. Art is expression. Expression is therapeutic and it has been transcendent in growing to become a more rounded person. With the world going crazy and my own mother contracting the virus, for the first time in my life what was on the news was in my everyday life. My images that I have chosen speak to the time spent in isolation that has changed the world that we are currently living in.