For this project I have selected a topic that is very personal to me.  I have chosen to focus on anxiety and depression.  Many people worldwide, unfortunately suffer from this.  Many times they suffer in silence.  They do not want to appear weird or different from their peers.  I have lived with this most of my life and it has strongly affected me in the past.  Both music and art are very important to me because they have helped me cope and get through really hard times.  This has been said for many people.  I have chosen to focus on the Oliver Sacks book “Musicophilia:  Tales of Music and the Brain” for this project and I plan to incorporate a musical theme in part of my work.  I will create a mixed media piece, which is not only my favorite way to work, but I feel like it expresses much emotion.  I plan to create an abstract likeness of myself that expresses the feeling of living with anxiety and depression and the weight it bears on a person as well as the uninvited mask it creates for us.  I also feel it will be a great follow up piece to my memory project on past lives, being that it has been said that anxiety in a present life may be due to past life trauma.