Relief Project focuses on the issue of anxiety, specifically on Rutgers Newark campus. It aims to raise awareness about the seriousness and prevalence of anxiety, as well as encourage students that suffer anxiety to seek help. This is accomplished through a series of interactive posters that encourages a making process that engages the viewer with the physicality of the poster in order to create a state of relief as well as inform them where they can get help. The second element of the Relief Project is a toolkit, designed to provide students with items they can use as a part of their everyday routine to alleviate feelings of anxiety.

The first poster states “Wrap Me for Anxiety Relief”. It utilizes a form of string therapy to engage the viewer in a calming, repetitive process of wrapping soft, brightly colored yarn around nails. The yarn eventually covers the word “Anxiety”, leaving only relief.

The second poster states “Color Me for Anxiety Relief.” It encourages the audience to make use of the crayons provided to fill in the poster as one would a color-by-number book. The crayon wax covers the world “Anxiety”, leaving only relief.

The third poster reads “Tear Me for Anxiety Relief,” and cycles through ten different colors. The final poster simply states “Relief”, signalling the end goal or relief state accomplished by the tearing process.