As an artist I see myself as more of a surrealist then anything else. I look to my unconscious mind as the spark for my creativity. Right now my work is over mental disorders. I am fascinated with the deflects in the human brain that in some cases allow a dream like state in waking. Disorders like Bi-polar and Schizophrenia, which is a part of my family history and has been passed down to me, are a good example of this. To me these disorders are caused by a war between the conscious and unconscious mind: which is of course completely different then the brain. In a person without a disorder the unconscious and conscious mind are at balance. A person with a disorder has an unconscious mind that's fighting for control and when it succeeded that person has allusions or hallucinations.
This is a piece I did over schizophrenia over break. This is where I am now with my own personal work. I'd like to push some of these images further. For a long time I wasn't sure what I really wanted to direct myself towards until I really felt the need to understand my own disorder and that made me I want to understand all disorder. In earlier work I touched on disorders.
Norman Rockwell
