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Drawings – Inpatient Units
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Drawings - Inpatient Units
These A4 pen drawings were all completed during my long stays in mental health wards in Qld and Victoria over many months. My art is my medicine and my primary language of catharsis and recovery.
Many of the images are dark, and reflect my ill mental health and my thought patterns at the time of their creation. In these months I was kept safe when my suicidality was extreme. The drawings completed in my studio when I returned home are more about living in the moment and recovery.
life | journey | affectation
medication | ward | inpatient
determination | power | wellness
body protecting itself
wind | swept | woes
Alice in Wonderland
retract internal force
cuckoo | contrast | flighty
stories | drink | eat
box | titles | category
together | working | many
micro | Alice | macro
psychosis | reality | fiction
poorly | days | struggles
worker | protect | family
borderline personality disorder
damage done again
feelings | emotions | thoughts
mental | physical | acceptance
darkness | light | cohesion
remove | resist | recover
stereotype | names | stigma
judgements | stigma | stereotypes
physicality | aging | longing
esteem | judgement | repetition
holding | wishing | wanting
holidays | relief | endings
knowing no boundaries
opposite | action | DBT
swallowing | waiting | feeling
effects | swathing | overcoming
decision | floating | ending
names | stigma | stereotypes
lives | lived | endings
decisions | emotional | drought
pain | guilt | hurt
waiting | timing | judging
judgements | diagnoses | DSM
pill | seed | growth
choice | whether | taken
psychosis | hallucination | fiction
nearing | endings | feelings
mirror | image | echoes
Is dying sleeping?
ward | paper | cup
mood | improvement | totality
self judgement |borderline
ablaze | match | burn
a woman’s place
myself | judging | misogyny
keeping me safe
blood | explosion | reach
never needing help
decision | made | total
cuckoos | bleeding | judging