Mending gestures

I tried mending this glass...

But it was being very ungrateful about it.

The cut is mending itself now (hopefully).

Double mendicide.

I semi-successfully glued my shoe back together.

I tried to mend this plants' relationship with life but I did not succeed. (insert succulent pun)

I'm usually too lazy to make myself dinner, so I tried to mend that by cooking. Although it was a very good taco, sadly I'm back to not taking care of myself.

At first I wanted to make my video about mending memories.

To a certain point it was something that's close to me, but not enough.

I wasn't really feeling it, so I decided to pick something that I actually struggle with.

So here we are:
Toxic Positivity

Anytime something bad happens in my life, I don't allow myself to be sad about it, or have any negative emotions overall. I brush over the bad thing, pretending it never happened, or pretending it's not that big of a deal.

What I try to tell in my video is that it's okay to have negative emotions next to the positive ones.

The mending gesture in the video is the combining of emotions instead of seeing them as two separate things that should be kept apart.

I used the mending gestures I came up with for the memories and altered them a little and added to them to use as the metaphorical mending of emotions.

Manipulating myself

TOXIC POSITIVITY

The original colours.