Here are the final pieces after finalizing everything and adding in the text:
What happens if it’s flipped up? 😀
Final 6 pieces together:
Month: March 2016
Point of View (Process II)
After finalizing my sketches, I decided to do the drafts of my 6 chosen pieces.
ADHD:
Schizophrenia:
Depression:
OCD:
Anorexia:
For ‘anorexia’ I was still contemplating if I should bind the lips with measuring tape, or with wires.
Anxiety:
For ‘anxiety’ I tried to get the ‘scratch marks’ on the bandage using marker but it seems like it is not working out….I might change the bandage to plaster instead.
Point of View (Process I)
So after researching for the list of mental illnesses, I decided to choose 6 from the list and did some sketches!
Point of View (Research II)
Because The Little Prince is a book for children, I decided to add some textures onto my work just like a children’s book. The mixture of creepiness (mental illnesses) and the sense of touch (children’s book) seems really interesting and exciting to me.
To get myself started, I did a research on textile children’s books.
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Point of View (Research I)
I read The Little Prince a few weeks ago and I got really excited about the drawing that the Little Prince drew.
The Little Prince drew a picture of a boa constrictor that ate an elephant and he asked some adults to guess what it was, and they thought it was a hat.
I realised that a simple picture can actually mean different things to different people and so I decided to explore what people with different mental illnesses will see when they look at this picture.
Firstly I decided to google for a list of mental illnesses and I found 6 illnesses that I thought would be interesting to explore: ADHD (Attention Deficiency Hyperactive Disorder), depression, anxiety, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), eating disorder and schizophrenia.
Then I decided to go into Pinterest and search for works that depict different mental illnesses in illustrations.
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Depression:
Why I chose this threading image is that I like the idea of using texture, especially threads/strings to show isolation and suffocation.
Anxiety:
Eating disorder:
