ART MISDIAGNOSED
The art made outside of the captive arts, the captive arts being that which is made to fit into acceptance by the art world
Not a professional University art student but discussing art with a real and personal voice, not something constructed by an institution
Not with the training of a real professional but looking to become a leading voice in the art conversation
Volunteering a safe space for the artist to show up authentically and in the pursuit of true expression, not formulated to be in the action of uncertainty with vision in the art
A community for mental health artists to make free art open to the world and becoming a widely accessible community of creatives who see past their mental illness and find themselves being able to make the very thing they dream which has before been denied to them
Designed as a place where art is not determined to be “art” based on the art world’s acceptance or protocol of being able to be defined as art
Clearly providing the opportunity to make art free from constraints of what is determined to be classified art, by the way it is normally presented to be art based on checking all the boxes to fit into being confined in order to be approved by the critics and other people in the art world of the elites who form a small circle around the title
I’m not the professional by schooling but I have years of experience to which I conduct myself to in arena around art, I have a three year diploma but one that is not taken seriously by professional artists through conversations I have had, therefore I am on the outside of the art world but I AM ART
MIND CONTORTIONIST
As if in the carnival, I’m the Mind Contortionist in reality … if you want to put in the money I can bring out fun and exciting ideas to you who desire to open the ideas of your interests
I take information from life and filter it through my mind then it comes out the way it does which is my art The Revolving Imagery compilations, I see things in my minds eye that is free to exist in the mind without the constraints of the real, I play and invite you to play
My mind doesn’t work the way it did before madness, the madness constructed my mind to become The Mind Contortionist because of many reasons, I was able to come back to the real with a working mind and it changed the agenda of the way it can work, where before mania I didn’t use my mind to cultivate opening thoughts I just partied
My mind has been to every corner of existence, from insanity to a void to addiction to recovery to being now present in my chance to choose to exist in the world of the real
REVOLVING IMAGERY
The images shared, are workings of organized ideas brought through my Mind Contortionist mind to make prompts as to promote others to play creatively in whatever way they wish using the base point of my Revolving Imagery as to begin a thought pattern never before had the chance to play with
To use the prompts as to exercise the ability of accessing individual information from life historical happenings to create art or reflect back on the things in life’s experiences as to recall chapters and moments that have been in reality
The way I use Revolving Imagery (the art I make) is to open the images to other things associated with each part of the sentence structure based on how far out I can take the things associated with the imagery, which I call the accessories to the Revolving Imagery and then I research more images based on the imagery accessories I’ve discovered to download more objects or living things from reality, which I do by using Pinterest as to widen the visuals that my mind can contain and this way I get items from the fascinating real into the intangibility of my mind so that my Revolving Imagery can develop furthermore and become even wider of a reference image point of the library it is becoming
The way Alice In Wonderland has been adapted in so many different ways, this is my proposal for Revolving Imagery, for millions of people to make and construct the images into different forms of being into existence by their own creative minds, it is when my mind goes into a relaxed state of being, therefore it is structured much like the mind of Alice, sleeping she d and but the dreams are convoluted with much information which makes up a dream which has been modified by so many people out there, from parties to art, Alice In Wonderland and Revolving Imagery lives as a story of An Alice’s mind
WILDFLOWER CHASING DRAGONS
Without the help of meditations my mind is a Wildflower, untouched by human hands and runs free in the insanity my mind naturally wants to be in
I act wildly growing, I show up online in lots of places and with different ideas of executing my creativity in enchanting the wildness of my mind's expression through the arena of social platforms, as if being the meadow where I grow like a wildflower, many different breads of flowers as angles of the mind being exposed as freely as I am given the chance to be online
I’m free when I’m in madness and since my mind naturally wants to be in psychosis, I am grateful to the medication to help me live a life in the real
I am controlled by meditations so I use what I can to optimize my time in the real by sharing examples and the experiences I’ve had through the arena of what madness does to a person to be the most solid and real teller of what an insane person is like and what they go through
Dragons are all the fascinating things that are in the real and I chase them to enrich my life because I see how lucky I am to be able to function and since Dragons are thought to be luck I chase them as they are the opportunities to have a rich life and that is my main goal
Dragons are the protectors of the large riches life has and so I want to meet the dragons are collect the riches they protect, so I go where they are to gather richness’s of life, which is in the experiences of everything that exists in reality
ARTISTIC PEER
I am acting like the Artistic Peer by combining my Peer Support training and volunteering, along with my art training and practice of working as an artist to create a program and workshop that is optimal for the creative consumers/survivors to be able to make art if they don’t know where to start by giving all the steps I take and they exploration my personal art practice as a base for others I invite in to be able to set their own ideas based on mine
I volunteer the steps and angles as to how to make art if the person needs a guiding hand but I can also be studied as a person who uses art to construct a life worth richness by the accessibility for the freedom to live as an artist who has a mental illness
Artistic Peer is not for those who know exactly what to do with their art but for those who are open to a structured approach in the process that works for me that can be applied to them, I try to make it accessible to others but the point of reference is what has worked for me in art and healing
I am also going along with the creatives to bring this into existence as a fellow artist, so those who find what I do beneficial, know I’m developing my art practice as i share all the information as the Artistic Peer
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE ARTIST
I have lived my life for almost 20 years recovering from mental illness with art and that is what saved me, I lost my mind first in 2008 and I swam in the depths of darkness by myself for years until I found what would help me find a solution to my issue, and that is art
The artist in me was born before madness but helped me in the aftermath of becoming labelled by mania’s outcomes, I do not wish for anyone to spend that amount of time recovering, if I could provide a swift example to work in the real I choose to do that with artistic vision and conversation
I have both professional and patient experiences in the mental health community, this make me believe that using art to speak is my reason to help in the mental health community that can be the actual direction my life is supposed to take me in
“AN” ALICE
Alice is often thought to go into the world of the “mad” and there she loses herself, changes become different and that is what happened to me going into madness, I definitely did not come out the same as to who I was going into it
I am one of many Alice’s going into the world of the mad, not all are as open as me but my personal choice is to share the actual experiences and truths of what happens in the world of the “mad” as to no longer have it imagined or the person being judged from a thing that happened to them not by choice
Alice’s all over the world have been silenced, I show up as one to be a voice of honesty and no longer play into the isolation that Alice’s feel because of going into madness and coming out misunderstood, I’m real in the accounts of what happens when you cross over and come back
MAKING A GUEST APPEARANCE
I am only in the real because of my medications. Which I deem as the best possible position I can be in.
I value my time and place in reality and decide not to squander the chance I get to participate in the community of being human with sanity.
That being said, my mind naturally wants to go into insanity, and so I am only making a guest appearance to the real. The real which I am making my cameo appearance in, leaving behind things here and there that can give the evidence that I was here.