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My concept hasn't changed much from my last post. I'm still working on the disorder series as well as pieces that are inspired from my dreams
This is the 1st of my disorder series which is very dear to my heart because Schizophrenia runs in my family. I know very little about what my great grandfather went through because of it except for a few stories my mother told me and It's something that's been passed down to myself even though I can see it isn't as serve.
Schizophrenia has 2 symptoms that stand out strongly. Hallucinations and Allusions which as you would think I kind of difficult to illustrate without taking cliché methods. I ended up illustrated something similar to one of my own hallucinations and that's where this image comes from as well as why the figure looks oddly familiar.
"Dark Thoughts"
After I did my own disorder I decided that I should do all the disorders in their groupings like the 3 eating disorders. I began with Anorexia Nervosa which is the an eating disorder where the person is delusional believing no matter what weight they are they're over weight and as a result starve themselves. The idea was to show how they themselves saw themselves and how they really were.
"Starving Illusions"
That leads me to Binge eating. That should be self explanatory but if a person eats a massive amount of food on a regular basis normally within the span of at least a month it becomes a disorder. I didn't want to show large fat slob because that would be too easy. So I came up with the idea that the subject has eaten so much that his dining table and chair are composed of the trash and left overs from the meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaal. The thing i'm noticing though is that i'm not creating much space in these pieces and i want to create at least alittle sense of space so it's more like they're in our world and not just flowing.
Sketch for binge eating disorder
Outside of the disorder series I've been having some very strange dreams that have had images that just get stuck in my head and the only way i can get them out is if i draw them. So from a dream this next image came from that's morbid and bizarre. I don't really have an explanation for it. It just was stuck in my head and I had to draw it
Partly finished
Artist Post:
I'm looking at Molly McVey. She's a Junior here working towards a major in 2-D art and a minor in photo. Last semester she found that her art work really is inspired by connections and relationships in a photo. She takes time combining images, replacing textures from one and incorporating them into another to create a final piece. These textures are blended into areas where at a quick glaze wouldn't be noticeable but on inspection they can be seen as out of place.
She has recently begun to take her photos she shoots and using a tablet is drawing over the top of the mapping out the images in a more simplistic way making the image into nothing more then line work and clouds of color. This is just a study at this time to expand her skill sets.
ID Series:
I ended up at the 1:00 lecture with Dr. Harriet Bachner and Melinda Ledlow which I found to be very interesting and the 1:30 lecture with Jessica Stallings and Dr. Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro. I rather enjoyed the Lecture about Complex Trauma. I knew of trauma but didn't really know how much further it really could go. I never thought of multiple traumatic experiences effects which really it makes sense that your body and mind would have trouble resetting itself which put in a similar moment like the one to the traumatic experience. Now i'll think to just breathe. (Pink Floyd)
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