For my second diptych titled, “Pull for Help”, I used a velvet-black backdrop to emphasize the feeling of being in a dark place, a feeling most correlated with major depressive disorder. The rope on the right of my subject is to represent help, and how it is always there if you reach out for it. My subject does not acknowledge the rope because of the way we treat mental illnesses, only focusing on “crisis-management” rather than prevention. Even though my subject looks depressed, the symptoms of mental illnesses are not always clearly physical, so to emphasize the distress, depressed moods, and other symptoms, I used a Hue/Saturation edit and the Liquify tool, as seen on the right side of the diptych. The rope is red to emphasize the emergency of the situation, and how my subject should reach out for help before it is too late.