City: Kula

Brain Injury: Sub-Arachnoid Hemorrhage, Interventricular Bleeding

Explanation of Mask: I decided to make my mask a representation of the duality of a Traumatic Brain Injury that I experienced The Right Side has a hurricane on the forehead to show the confusion and whirlwind of thoughts following the injury, the dark eye to show what the future looks like, the lightning bolt from the eye to represent the Anger and Sadness associated with the realization of what happened, the red cracks on the cheek to show the pressure of having to deal with the new circumstances and challenges and finally the lips ties together to show the difficulty of communicating the above challenges. The left side of the face represents the optimism that you must create and hold on to in order to heal and move on. The heart shows the love from Friends and Family, the open window in the eye is the new opportunity in life, the Brain lifting weights is the hard work you do to recover from injury, and the smile with 4-leaf clover is the realization that things could have been much worse!