Tag Archives: Education
Beasts of our own making: the buyers’ market and identity politics.
Do we pay greater attention to the psychic lives of others in order to validate the idea that our own “otherness” is our own property? Or do we paradoxically invalidate our identities by being drawn to the ever-present public voices … Continue reading
Artefacts of Life Project: A Chronicle of Mental Illness #ArtefactsofLife
The aim of Artefacts of Life is to encourage people to share their experiences of life with a mental illness and in so doing allow me to take these a step further. My task is to try and translate these moments and feelings into something visual. The result will be a photo project, an anthology of life with a mental illness. I am asking people to share whatever they would like (within the 140 characters): memories, anecdotes, thoughts, feelings, questions, hopes or fears. Anything –positive or negative. My goal is to try to take these and turn them into a collection of abstract pieces that convey what living with a mental illness might be like. Continue reading
Bipolar Wars: Failure to Compartmentalise
Recently I have had to confront the consequences of my ill health and begin to tackle a huge element of the sickness that falls upon me with ever-increasing frequency: my inability to compartmentalize the good from the bad. This is … Continue reading
Gulliver Unravelled 