live through this- fighting fire with acid rain: a story of coming down (3)

This piece is by illistrator Cristy c.Road whom uses her unique, almost comic book style to tell her story.Her story tells of a cocaine abuse, an addiction the the thrill, and not wanting to feel the emoitions seeping back in she would snort more when she feel she was on a come down, it affected her views on life an relationships, meaningless sex with strangers gave her a connection that she needed to feel, and how she one day realised that she didn't want to die with that numbness given to her by her addiction and how she wanted to focus on her work. While the text is highly descriptive of her come down and the emoitions seeping back in, it was the imagery which hit me more. The drawing she used to accompany the description of her turn around was herself, pulling out her heart from her chest and sewing it back together, which really symbolised and helped to visually show all the emotions she stated she went through, and this is something that i want to focus on, expeshilly in my video work, this short piece based around self harm but using visual symbolism rather than obvious gore.