City: Baton Rouge

Brain Injury: Fatal car accident at 19 years old, coma for two weeks.  Blood loss resulting in right frontal lobe atrophying. 

Explanation of Mask: My mask shows how I feel on the outside when I look at myself in the mirror.  I feel like an unattractive plain person.  I don’t remember my elementary, middle and high school years.  The missing part of my brain that I do have on the mask shows the jumbled thoughts and emotions that I have lived with for the past 20 years.  The dark circles around my eyes represent my chronic brain fatigue.  I can stay up for about two to three hours before I feel like I have to go to bed again.  But, I have learned how to live with this,