I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.