It’s safe to say that no one feels especially positive about the way the past few years have played out when it comes to our mental health. Although our day-to-day pandemic experiences may have differed, we also feel a shared sense of suffering due to COVID’s many burdens. That said, there is perhaps one demographic that has experienced a special kind of social pain through the COVID-era.
But as one Perth artist has recently discovered, there can be a great power in bringing certain kinds of art-making activities into classrooms to help students express what they are really feeling. Not only that, but these practices may also help to ease the pressures that young people face in their increasingly performative, social media driven lives.
