Real-Life Monsters

For an Art/Health Education/Core Competencies/Social-Emotional Growth project, we dug deep into our souls and created a metaphoric representation of our Real-Life Monsters, something we struggle with every time it happens and that stands in the way of our success.

This project was inspired by a story from Lynda Barry’s book What It Is, in which she realizes that her childhood fear of/obsession with the Medusa has a real-life correlation.  

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lynda-barry-gorgon-4(Lynda Barry, What It Is, Drawn and Quarterly, 2008)

And I love the results so much that I am going to have a hard time giving them back…

What’s your real-life monster?  How will you defeat it?

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