Art ideas - How to depict emotions being barriers to the mind?

Question

Art ideas - How to depict emotions being barriers to the mind?

Answer 1

Position: Someone behind a barred window, fence, grille. The less prominent the barrier, the more subtle the message, a hedge for instance.

Light and dark, shadows, etc.

Posture: sitting with legs crossed, pillowON lap

Standing, arms folded

Clothing, light dark how much skin or how revealing?

Answer 2

Simple... draw a female. LOL.

Answer 3

the bars idea is tooo obvious and if its about the mind ...

then I would do an exciting piece full of colour..

as you see when looking at pictures of the mind   different colours depicting diff emotions  then copy paste and over lay off centre to create a barrier............

Answer 4

I would draw a person with bars made out of the emotions say anger and suicide then put the nice things behind it that the bad emotions are stopping the mind from seeing, Like family and love. Or the other way round.

Answer 5

I'll send you a photo of me.

Answer 6

This is so open you could pretty much do anything you wanted. The easiest would be showing people in great emotional conflict or duress. Draw facial expressions of stress and anxiety.

Answer 7

The simpleton act of using them is statement enough :-)