Grace Slusser
Freshman in Game Design at Drexel University
The Sowing Needle
A digital painting made using Clip Studio Paint. It depicts the experience of insomnia and the self-blame of someone who doesn't know how to ask for help. The imagery was inspired the the artist Remedios Varo, and is part of a series of self-portraits exploring the impact of social media and its popularization of mental illness, and how that alters one's self-concept.
The Sowing Needle. This painting represents self-depreciation in the eyes of someone suffering from insomnia. This piece is part of a series of works investigating the experience of mental illness through the lens of self.