Anxious Creatures
2020
Anxious Creatures is an illustrated deck of 32 cards depicting cartoon creatures experiencing intrusive thoughts. These cards help bridge the topic of intrusive thoughts in a creative and humorous way. It is a conversation starter, helping us to collectively bring shame out into the open, where it cannot survive. Sold online, in stores and exhibited in public space through street posters. I made these cards after having a bit of mental car crash and being diagnosed with OCD and then being really surprised that I had never heard of instrusive thoughts before. Like, WTAF, it seems like a basic thing we should be teaching kids!?
“They literally made me laugh out loud...Thank you so much for putting a smile on my face at a time when I was feeling a little sad about the state of the world...I would dearly like to buy a few packs of these cards to support you and to place them around my offices for my teams who are all feeling a little anxious and depressed...”
“I came to better understand my own background with mental health about 3 years ago, but I definitely feel like if I’d seen your work earlier than this time it would have been a real game changer for me...Hopefully the mental health awareness message continues to spread!”
“I am a psychologist and animal assisted therapist... I am absolutely in love with them. They are so real and funny and I think would make a great addition to my practice.”
Get in touch with me at arierainglorie@gmail.com
I respectfully acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nation as traditional custodians, on whose unceded lands we live and work. I respectfully acknowledge their elders past and present.
“I stumbled across these...Wow. I felt seen and heard for maybe the first time.”
“Amazing. SO good. So many people silently and unknowingly battle with these thoughts and your work would make people every day they aren’t alone with their compulsive and unwanted thoughts."h
