My current practice during my final thesis year at OCADU has been focusing on therapeutic installations where people can learn to express their emotions in unconventional ways as opposed to how they would in an institutional environment.  My installations assists those who have a hard time communicating their emotions vocally to express themselves and also to help them realize what they are genuinely feeling.  These installations can help people to experiment with self-therapy in their private life to help with their mental illness as they face society’s taboos of mental illness, which restricts them in expressing how they are genuinely feeling. This may help them be enlightened as to why they are feeling this particular way and thus improve their judgments of what they can do to help themselves overcome these feelings in those situations that invoke those emotions.

As an artist I would like to experiment with the use of art therapy with my installations as a means of creating an environment that can help those who suffer from mental illnesses. These installations will be focusing on creating an environment that will allow people to freely express themselves vocally based on how they feel. Interactors will have the opportunity to develop their ability to differentiate between different emotions in a controlled and interactive environment. This installation will allow the interactor to explore their response to three main emotions: sadness, happiness and anger.