Category / 2 minute read / Articles / Drawing / Edition #17 / Illustration / Mental Health / The Mind
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Emily Hochman – Documents from the Bipolar Spectrum
#17: The Mind – My work deals almost exclusively with the mind. I am diagnosed as Bipolar 1, and although I have been in recovery for years, it’s something that affects me every day.
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Greta Latchford – Revelations
#17: The Mind – I use creativity to process my emotions and help me integrate new, healthy ways of being
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John Williams – Internal Dialogue
#17: The Mind – The importance of living in the present moment rather than unnecessary dwellings in the past or trying to figure out what the future will look like.
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Chloe Wing – Caged
#17: The Mind – My art is a way to understand myself and the world, to escape and find resolve where there may not be any in the present.
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Ping Zheng – My Mind
#17: The Mind – I like spending a lot of time on processing and communicating with my artwork… approaching art as a mean of personal development.
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Salvador Campos – Mind Your Own Business
#17: The Mind – I’ve grown comfortable with the complexity of being grateful for a mind responsible for the joy of creating art and the pain of depression.
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Sophie Webb – These Marks I’m Making
#17: The Mind – Art has helped me with my mental health. I draw highly detailed mandalas that help me enter a space of tranquil and calm, aiding self-reflection and inner silence
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Julia Hadji-Stylianou – Non Compos Mentis
#17: The Mind – Expressing my internal state through my work has helped me to define what depression and anxiety is to me.
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Zdenka Nyburg – A Talk with my Brain
#17: The Mind – It was after the birth of my first child that I became enlightened to my truth; the mind pretends to be in control of things inside and outside of the self.
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Laura Scull – Through Thought
#17: The Mind – Art is the therapy that we do not realise that we need…
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Bobbie-Jo Treglown – Where tinnitus goes to die
#17: The Mind – I have had tinnitus since childhood. Unfortunately for me I have a brain that likes to decode things and so from an early age I spent my nights learning the language of my tinnitus.
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Sam Heywood – Cloud People
#17: The Mind – Clouds are ethereal, transient and beautiful – just like the emotional sensitivities of humans.
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Elisaveta Sivas – Getting out of the Brain
#17: The Mind – I am very interested in the the relationship between the mind and the human. In some of my artworks I try to explore this relationship and to express my ideas about it.
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Mary Sewell – As Above so Below
#17: The Mind – I am interested in what is hidden, invisible or yet unformed and the relationship between that inner and the outer space.
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Pamela Crowe – Novel Writing for Depressives
#17: The Mind – An attempt by the author to understand the difference between pain that artists can find creatively generative and pain that artists find totally blocks creativity.
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Franklin LaVoie – Mindscape
#17: The Mind – “I’ve been interested in the mind all of my life. I turned inside-out on December 31, 1976, which is tantamount to losing one’s mind.”
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Tom Lines – Embodied Mind
#17: The Mind – My work comes from a personal place, it deals with my own mental state: my anxieties, my depressions and boredom.
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Matt Witt – Human
#17: The Mind – His mind came to rest in the crescent of her lashes where he laid his body in their perfect cradle.
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Nina Valetova – Mobius Strip
#16 – A group of artists, mathematicians, teachers and writers gather to discuss numbers in relation to art and creativity.
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Richard Downes – 1 of Us
#16 – A group of artists, mathematicians, teachers and writers gather to discuss numbers in relation to art and creativity.
