Heres a great article on how art produced by those with severe mental illness can help re-frame the conversation around mental illness, and give a voice to the most vulnerable in our community. Amid these severe dysfunctions, complex problems, rejections and repressions, one thing that remains is creative vision which reveals itself with a boom or very quietly. Some without speech create grand visions on paper. Others repent their sins on canvas. Those with forearms covered in self-inflicted scars sit quietly and intently carve complex symmetrical patterns into printing materials. The severely agitated sit transfixed as they paint.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:39:25 +0000