As the narrative is abstract in nature, creating a Zine is the most effective way to express the micro narrative without restricting how the person can visualize how they feel. The reason for documenting the sessions through photographs and text is the most effective media to put into a Zine allowing for easy collaboration between both Team Members when creating the Zine together.
What we wanted from each session is for each person to visualize what they were feeling at that moment through any means wether it is paint, pens, scratching the mirror or even breaking it. Giving the creative freedom to explain how they are feeling in a literal and abstract sense.
From this we realized that at the end of each session, getting the person to write down how they are feeling gave the audience a better insight and helped contextualize what the person is trying to convey on their canvas.
Within the Zine we plan to embed a range of existing tools surrounding mental health i.e (coping mechanisms like, self reflection / literal tools such as helplines). The intention of this is to contextualize the zine as being a piece of a narrative that is a whole lot bigger than itself and to further link our micro narrative to the macro. Through the use of these existing tools we make what we are doing within this project apart of something far bigger that goes beyond the scope of our project alone. This project is not only a transmedia project in itself but in how it is linked to these external ideas, tools and themes that aid the wider narrative of support in the mental health sector.