Mental illness Patient Art Work
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Explorations
Explorations #8 Cracks
I have lived here since 1991 and never really explored it. I went looking for cracks keeping in mind that cracks represent time. It was amazing to see what I found some cracks were so old that they were almost more like faint scars barely visible to the eye. Some of the cracks I found were growing new life within them, and some had a story to them sorta like a mystery. Then there were some that I only knew the story of why they were there. They are all so similar yet at the same time so unique.
I have lived here since 1991 and never really explored it. I went looking for cracks keeping in mind that cracks represent time. It was amazing to see what I found some cracks were so old that they were almost more like faint scars barely visible to the eye. Some of the cracks I found were growing new life within them, and some had a story to them sorta like a mystery. Then there were some that I only knew the story of why they were there. They are all so similar yet at the same time so unique.
Art Diary Pages
Before I started RCAD I would draw just for fun as a way releasing myself on paper. I did this ever since I can remember. When I graduated from high school I decide it was time to clean it up and organize it. I believe I was the harshest critic of what was allowed and what was trash. I think I threw out 2 bags full of what I considered thrash, stupid, or unworthy of keeping. What was left was put in a 3 ring red binder and put away and considered my art diary. I never really wrote a diary but I came me that in my own way I did have a diary and to me it seem more personnal than just writting words it shows more of me than words do. To my this diary more preciuos to me.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
My Stuffed Animals
I am in the middle of doing a coping time line. I got home from class and drew images of the stuffed toys I have had through my childhood as my starting place. My next step is placing them in the right order and add what help me through the teen years. Then write a little about each one, what I can remember in some cases I was to young . I only remember the end years of some of these toys history.
Fitting In
At what age do we start to want to fit in, and why?
Do we start caring, from child hood?
I believe that we start caring about fitting in when we are about 5 years old because before that we have our family taking care of us. We do not have society to worry about. Once we reach school age we start to deal with peer pressure, and the standards that society believes are important and allow you to fit in. If you are too fat, short, tall, smart, skinny, or are from another ethnic group or country it will affect how people think of you or treat you. We stared getting type cast, and find that once you have been placed into a group the popular, unpopular you are stuck in it while you are in that same group. If you want to fit in with the popular crowd you have to play by their rules. We start wanting to be part of a group, because we want to have friends, we want to belong and not be left out. Be singled out make you an out cast and also a target that can be mocked at. It also makes you feel good or bad about yourself depending on where your peers place you. The issue with society is that there is nowhere that states every one has to be thin and fit and smart and funny and fit in. It is just the perceptions we have because of the mass media and people go crazy over stuff like that. Like they binge and they don’t eat and they become bulimic and no one is totally comfortable with them self because there afraid of how the world is viewing them.
Do we start caring, from child hood?
I believe that we start caring about fitting in when we are about 5 years old because before that we have our family taking care of us. We do not have society to worry about. Once we reach school age we start to deal with peer pressure, and the standards that society believes are important and allow you to fit in. If you are too fat, short, tall, smart, skinny, or are from another ethnic group or country it will affect how people think of you or treat you. We stared getting type cast, and find that once you have been placed into a group the popular, unpopular you are stuck in it while you are in that same group. If you want to fit in with the popular crowd you have to play by their rules. We start wanting to be part of a group, because we want to have friends, we want to belong and not be left out. Be singled out make you an out cast and also a target that can be mocked at. It also makes you feel good or bad about yourself depending on where your peers place you. The issue with society is that there is nowhere that states every one has to be thin and fit and smart and funny and fit in. It is just the perceptions we have because of the mass media and people go crazy over stuff like that. Like they binge and they don’t eat and they become bulimic and no one is totally comfortable with them self because there afraid of how the world is viewing them.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Explorations
Exploration #9 Box Of Curiosities
I chose this one because I have always loved collecting small objects. It makes me think of we always tend to want to make everything small. The smaller the better. Maybe we feel we can control it better. I look around and small CD, miniature broad games, decks of cards, cell phones, radios, and I could go on and on. It a way of controlling our surroundings may making us feel more confident in ourselves.
I chose this one because I have always loved collecting small objects. It makes me think of we always tend to want to make everything small. The smaller the better. Maybe we feel we can control it better. I look around and small CD, miniature broad games, decks of cards, cell phones, radios, and I could go on and on. It a way of controlling our surroundings may making us feel more confident in ourselves.
Fitting In Research
Think of last class I made a list of words that can be connected to social acceptance. These are the words that I thought.
Conformity
Identity
Acceptance
Approval
Friendship
Belonging
Rejection
Loneliness
Fitting In
Self Esteem
I also found this articles:
http://teenadvice.about.com/library/weekly/aa053101a.htm
http://teenadvice.about.com/cs/friendships
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2248/is_140_35/ai_70777836/pg_2?tag=content;col1
Questions that it brought up:
At what age do we start to want to fit in, and why?
Why do we want to fit in?
What are societies norms for fitting in?
Who is out and who is in?
What happens when you are the out cast?
In what way does it affect you if you do or don't fit in?
Is it all just a big fad?
Why is being different considered to be the number one rule not to be accepted?
Does not fitting in make you the better and stronger person?
What are some of the consequences of not fitting in?
What happens when you do fit in?
Is it better not to be yourself just so you fit in?
Conformity
Identity
Acceptance
Approval
Friendship
Belonging
Rejection
Loneliness
Fitting In
Self Esteem
I also found this articles:
http://teenadvice.about.com/library/weekly/aa053101a.htm
http://teenadvice.about.com/cs/friendships
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2248/is_140_35/ai_70777836/pg_2?tag=content;col1
Questions that it brought up:
At what age do we start to want to fit in, and why?
Why do we want to fit in?
What are societies norms for fitting in?
Who is out and who is in?
What happens when you are the out cast?
In what way does it affect you if you do or don't fit in?
Is it all just a big fad?
Why is being different considered to be the number one rule not to be accepted?
Does not fitting in make you the better and stronger person?
What are some of the consequences of not fitting in?
What happens when you do fit in?
Is it better not to be yourself just so you fit in?
Monday, February 16, 2009
Words/Image Excersises
A hero out of the rubble.
Your emotions rule you and make you who you are.
It lies in wait for the right moment to appear.
For in time all will be revealed.
One can’t live without the other.
Fusing together to make you whole.
Whose life really began?
What else could you have done about life in all of its aspects?
Any activity becomes creative it is the by-product of good expectations.
The only one I trusted and only one I told my secrete to.
The brush is stronger than our will and he's friend ready to listen.
They are the strength, hopes, fears, and dreams we hold dear.
It’s an escape from the really world.
The by-product of creative people would explain the goal.
Art expresses the colors of our visual soul for all the world to see.
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