Mind Numb is a work that is a part of a series that journals my emotions and my overall mood. During the process of making this piece, I wanted to highlight the emotion and idea of being dazed by depression. To showcase this idea, I initially turned to the idea of embossing the paper with the same rope that would be used to show the weight that the emotion is causing. This underlying emotion is further enforced by the constant shifts in cool-dark colors and subtle variations created by the dye process that I utilized. This piece was an important addition to my portfolio, personally because I needed an outlet to let my emotions go, but also because I learned that my materials were reflective of my mental and emotional state. The rope represents constrictive weighty baggage and the paper as memory and how my emotion resurfaces and bleeds into that memory.