Context

I started with a stock photo of one kid bullying another and then created the overlay using works by Artemisia Gentileschi, Edvard Munch, Rona Nishliu, Vincent Van Gogh, and other artists. The image essentially uses two separate overlays with their own theme: for the victim, I focused on images depicting fear, sadness, and depression, since those are emotions commonly induced by bullying. For the bully, I focused on artworks depicting anger, vengeance, and power hunger, since those are emotions that, when strong enough, can drive a person to hurt others. However, desire to hurt others does not exist in a vacuum: pain begets pain. That's why I included the words "save us" scrawled in the corner: to emphasize that both of the people involved feel pain.