These drawings were the ones I was working on before The Coronavirus officially hit London. My mind shifts from anxiety TYPE-A to anxiety TYPE-B very abruptly. In anxiety TYPE- A I manage to have things under control (that is where the anxiety comes from, the “control system”) and I make this clean freak drawings as another mechanism of control.
During phases of Anxiety TYPE-B, in which anxiety doesn’t come from within but is caused by external reasons from which I have NO CONTROL, I basically lose all sorts of controlling mechanisms and my work takes a life of its own. I will embrace the outcome dearly.
Changes of behaviour caused by unprecedented stress will happen in everyone. One of the most precious abilities we have as human beings is to adapt. It is not the strongest who resist, but the most flexible ones. Flexible minds deal better with uncertainty. Everyone’s struggle is completely subjective (and very objective as well—tremendously difficult to judge!). If you HAVE a flexible mind, and a weird combination of sensitive-stoic personality, DO SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW ANXIOUS FRIENDS - Mental Health is extremely important. Observe.
