tardive dyskinesia image
Draft layout in illustrator…working through various testimonies and visual styles. I felt that the comic book advert style was particularly suitable since these are, in effect, curiosities..and I’ve always loved their immediacy as well as the delicate relationship between expectation and disappointment that they tread.
No colour as yet but I have a few sheets of a suitable green and red I want to use. Some images (i.e. the ones here) are taken directly from adverts, others have been hand drawn and adapted for my use.
Mental health adverts - draft
“Gamers confront one another in contests of skill that reveal who has been chosen – chosen by the game as the one who has most fully internalized its algorithm”
- Mackenzie Wark, Gamer Theory
A distinct lack of blog updates belies a similar lack of productive art work. Sadly I’m starting to fall into the trap of working 9-5 and then spending my evenings recovering or pursuing activities specifically to compensate for the fact that I spend 8 hours every day doing something I don’t want to do. I’ve noticed that I have spent a great deal of money on video games recently.
I’m trying to break out of this cycle by working for its own sake, e.g. videoing my journey to work, keeping a record of my interviews with the mental patients I see each day, creating podcasts etc. There are a number of small projects I want to work on and it is just a matter of devoting attention to them each in turn in order to finish them off. I’ve realised that I’m less interested in mental processes than I am in patterns of behaviour, and, specifically, the way in which we can perpetuate destructive patterns even when aware of their impact.
I have to prepare new work if I am to submit a portfolio for MA courses following the end of my training contract, and membership of Northern print should give me the facilities to get a large amount of work done in a relatively short space of time.
