Hanna Lee

My sustained investigation, most negatively, depicts the huge impact that social media has on my anxiety. My concentration last year was on my anxiety as a whole, but I wanted to dive deeper into a single root of my anxiety this year. This process provided therapy for me and helped me realize things about myself and how the media affects me. Especially throughout my high school year, social media has influenced me in a more negative than positive way. It affected my sleep schedule, my self confidence, my overthinking, and positive attitude. I started to compare myself with others instead of being content with myself. During this process, I discovered another root of my anxieties: lack of confidence.

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Pink is an important color to me. Most of my pieces include a little touch of pink. This color has been with me through all my dark times, surrounding me on the walls of my old room, although now they are blue. It is an anxious but beautiful color. Most pink is shown within images 2, 4, and 7. Image 5 represents my unhealthy “wish” to be like other girls on social media. This is a problem for me as I find myself constantly comparing myself to strangers. Instead of embracing what I have, I want to be someone else. Our minds are always focused on our devices, regardless if we are looking at them or not depicted in image 1. Images 3 and 8 depict addiction and the struggle. Image 8 shows the habitual FaceTime sessions I have with my friends because, now, without them I feel lonely.