Alyssa Chow
A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with severe depression. For a long time, nothing has felt like anything, but everything’s felt so real. Life has become a contradiction. I wanted to capture this sense of helpless confusion. Everything is so clear, but not. My world is bathed in light, but bleak. I’m surrounded, but still alone
![Untitled [Portrait of twenty-eight days]](/files/b/a/f/4/i1576-th.jpg "Untitled [Portrait of twenty-eight days]")
A short visual essay of some of the works in the National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2010.
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