Depression.exe

April 2018

I am someone who suffers from major depression disorder and uses media such as Netflix and video games to escape the world and my own brain. Depression.exe explores the idea of flipping escapisms on their head. Camouflaged as Netflix’s ‘Are you still watching?’ screen, the piece takes the viewer down the path of depressing thoughts, sucked in a dark chain of thinking. By making the pieces an executable file, it draws a connection to my other escapism world of video games. It also gave me the opportunity to explore some basic computer programming. Although it seems the viewer is trapped answering and falling deeper into the depressing thoughts, the back button is always usable until the very last question. As you can always come back from even the darkest thoughts but not from suicide. The works has a companion piece, Anxiety.exe.