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Title: Borderline Personality Disorder Artist: Shea Campbell  Date: 2021 medium: mixed media 

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This artwork shows how painful it feels to be afraid of being left by someone. The person in the picture looks broken and confused. The colors and symbols around them show how intense and messy these feelings can be. By David Odidi

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This painting captures deep, overwhelming sadness. The man sits alone, head down, as if the weight of emotion has paralyzed him. The swirling background and dark tones reflect the emotional fog of depression.

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Artist: Edvard Munch

Date: 1894

Medium: Oil on canvas

by harvin

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This gallery explores depression through four emotional themes: sadness, hopelessness, exhaustion, and the hidden pain we carry behind smiles. Each piece represents a part of the quiet struggle many live through daily.

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Rothko’s blurred fields of color may seem abstract, but they hold deep emotional power. The dark red and black create a sinking feeling, like being pulled into a void. It reflects the quiet, consuming hopelessness that often accompanies depression.

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Artist: Mark Rothko

Date: 1960

Medium: Oil on canvas

by harvin

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This self-portrait expresses panic and despair. The wild eyes and clenched hands reflect the overwhelming fear and loss of control often felt in depression. It visualizes a moment where hope is slipping away raw, intense, and deeply human.

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Artist: Gustave Courbet

Date: 1845

Medium: Oil on canvas

by harvin

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This painting shows the deep exhaustion that comes with grief and emotional suffering. The pale, motionless child and the hunched adult figure reflect the stillness and fatigue of depression. It captures that moment where both the body and spirit feel drained and helpless.

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Artist: Edvard Munch

Date: 1907

Medium: Oil on canvas

by harvin

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This artwork reflect all those eyes that you think they are looking at you because your Anxiety can cause to see things response to stress, uncertainty, or perceived danger. It can manifest in many ways, physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Artist: Sarah Adams

Date: November 29, 2024

Medium: water color and pencil

by: Julissa

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This artwork is the same man in three different emotions that he is feeling when the anxiety hits his brain. Your mind would imagine bad things of a situation and it doesn't let you concentrate on what you are doing. You talk to your self, have thoughts of your capability or forget to remember what you were doing.

Artist: Asaf Hanuka

Date: 7/2024

Medium: Drawing

by: Julissa

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This woman has her head down and has a lot of stress and anxiety, that she feels it through her whole body. Having anxiety can cause several symptoms in the human body. For example restlessness, fatigue , trouble concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbances and racing thoughts.

Artist: Victoria Olt

Date: 8/2024

Medium: Printed Ink canvas

By: Julissa

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As an adult having everything in life is not easy to handle. This drawing represents a person having a lot of responsibilities and it can cause Anxiety. Anxiety is a natural response to stress, but when it becomes overwhelming or persistent, it can interfere with daily life. It can manifest as excessive worry, and even physical symptoms like rapid heartbeat.

Artist: Itzsomada on Davian

Date: 11-9-2020

Medium: Micron Pens (Graphic 1, Brush)

by: Julissa

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Artwork symbolizing and dealing with mental health, often employs powerful and visual metaphors. It uses symbolism to express the complex and often invisible struggles associated with experiences. Here is my take on “TRAUMA”. ~Raven

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Title: Inner Child’s Grief                             Artist: Danica                                       Date: Oct. 1, 2019

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This is the perfect visual representation showing the foundation of most people’s trauma. Our inner child crying out for help. Whatever monsters nightmares Demons, we dealt with as kids the memories we put away in a box. After locking the box, we threw away the key and push that box to the furthest and deepest part of our minds. So now we have all this pain, anger, and hate. A need more of longing for, that none of us have dealt with. It starts to affect us as adults because of problems that we just pushed to the side or swept under the rug. Your inner child is calling out to you for help. ~Raven

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Title: Stained                                         Date: 2017                                        Artist: Tracin Bauman

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If i had to imagine facing trauma alone, this is one way I would see it. The pain of being alone battling your demons, or the pain and realization of being one big mess going at it alone. No way to tell one experience from another. This experience of trauma is scary no matter the age. For some it becomes too much. Life becomes less and less worth living until you snap. ~Raven

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Title: Intestina                                        Artist: Tracin Bauman.                                 Date: 2018

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We often experience traumatic events with someone. Either he or she, friend or family. Mostly our Partners either way we don't always go through it alone. Well those who are lucky enough to have someone in their corner. (I wish lol) “For better or worse”, ‘Ride or die”, right? Take each other's pain, share the load and heal together. ~Raven

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Title: Rumination                                      Artist: Tracin Bauman                                      Date: 2016

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We all have our own experiences when dealing with trauma. Being silenced, abused, rejected, disrespected and so much more. We find ourselves hiding or spazzing out. Crying full of rage, self hate. We then begin to traumatize ourselves with self harm. Cutting or bruising your body mentally emotionally spiritually tearing ourselves down. All because we have unresolved trauma. Hell we are only human right. ~Raven

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Title: Instability of Self.  Artist: Katie Huggins.  Date: 2020 medium: acrylic on canvas 

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This painting shows a person with different faces, each showing a different feeling. It helps show how hard it is to feel sure about who you are when you have BPD. The mixed-up faces show the confusion inside. By David Odidi

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Title: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder!    Artist: Corinne Hamer.   Date: 2019 medium: oil in canvas 

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This painting shows someone feeling a lot of strong emotions all at once. The bright colors and wild paint strokes help us understand how overwhelming emotions can feel for people with BPD. By David Odidi

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Title: BPD Vent Art.  Artist: KORITHEZOMBIEDate: 2023.    Medium: Digital illustration

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This artwork shows a person surrounded by different versions of themselves. Each version shows a different emotion. It shows how people with BPD can feel like they’re always changing and struggling to stay balanced inside.

By David Odidi

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This artwork gallery's are based on anxiety that can cause mental illness. Anxiety can cause all kinds of emotions, for example excessive worry, and restlessness and be, unhappy. It can even cause also cause digestive issues . Anxiety can lead you to get professional help, with help you manage your life better. Anxiety is a natural response to stress, it can become overwhelming or persistent and it can interfere with daily life.

by: Julissa

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Caravaggio, 1597-1599, Oil on Canvas, 110 cm x 92 cm

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Through oil and color, Caravaggio retells the story of a cautionary tale about narcissism: Narcissus' intense gaze, made notable by dramatic light, and his flawless balance with his reflection appearing in the dark still water gives the viewer a sense of how isolating self-obsession can be for individuals who live with narcissistic personality disorder.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)- Antonia

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)- Antonia

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These four artworks explore the complex and often invisible effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Each piece conveys the intense emotional struggle, fragmented memories, and overwhelming anxiety that characterize PTSD. Through vivid imagery and expressive symbolism, the artists express the lasting impact of trauma on the mind and body, offering viewers a window into the experience of those who live with this condition.

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Artist: Andy Farr, Date: 2018, Medium: Acrylic painting on canvas

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Title: "The Twisted Rose and other lives"

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Title: "The Twisted Rose and other lives"

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“Twisted Rose and Other Lives” is a series of paintings by Andy Farr that visualizes personal stories of trauma and PTSD. The title piece, inspired by a survivor’s metaphor of a scarred but growing rose, symbolizes the enduring impact of trauma and the possibility of healing.

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The Twisted Rose and Other Lives is a series a paintings that depict what it is like to suffer and recover from mental health problems arising from trauma. The project was the result of collaboration between myself and the Institute of Mental Health, with support from Arts Council England.

The tour has now finished. Across the five cities over 20,000 people visited the exhibition. I have been staggered and moved by the response to the work from both visitors and participants, summed up by these comments:
"these are things we don't speak about on a frequent enough basis, but are so common. Thank you for giving a beautiful medium to start those conversations"
The paintings now rest in my studio in Coventry, England. If anyone is interested in exhibiting any of the works or using the images please just get in touch via the contacts page

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The Twisted Rose and other lives - ANDY FARR

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Series of works based on the lives of people recovering from trauma, with a focus on post traumatic growth. In collaboration with Institute of Mental Health

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Artist: Pablo Picasso,  Date: 1937, Medium: Oil painting on canvas

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A haunting, grayscale mural depicting the chaos, anguish, and devastation of civilians during the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. Its fragmented, distorted figures and anguished expressions powerfully symbolize the psychological trauma and lasting emotional scars of war, resonating as an early artistic representation of what we now recognize as PTSD.

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An accurate depiction of a cruel, dramatic situation, Guernica was created to be part of the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition in Paris in 1937. Pablo Picasso's motivation for painting the scene in this great work was the news of the German aerial bombing of the Basque town whose name the piece bears, which the artist had seen in the dramatic photographs published in various periodicals, including the French newspaper L'Humanité. Despite that, neither the studies nor the finished picture contain a single allusion to a specific event, constituting instead a generic plea against the barbarity and terror of war. The huge picture is conceived as a giant poster, testimony to the horror that the Spanish Civil War was causing and a forewarning of what was to come in the Second World War. The muted colours, the intensity of each and every one of the motifs and the way they are articulated are all essential to the extreme tragedy of the scene, which would become the emblem for all the devastating tragedies of modern society.
Guernica has attracted a number of controversial interpretations, doubtless due in part to the deliberate use in the painting of only greyish tones. Analysing the iconography in the painting, one Guernica scholar, Anthony Blunt, divides the protagonists of the pyramidal composition into two groups, the first of which is made up of three animals; the bull, the wounded horse and the winged bird that can just be made out in the background on the left. The second group is made up of the human beings, consisting of a dead soldier and a number of women: the one on the upper right, holding a lamp and leaning through a window, the mother on the left, wailing as she holds her dead child, the one rushing in from the right and finally the one who is crying out to the heavens, her arms raised as a house burns down behind her.
At this point it should be remembered that two years earlier, in 1935, Picasso had done the etching Minotauromaquia, a synthetic work condensing into a single image all the symbols of his cycle dedicated to the mythological creature, which stands as Guernica's most direct relative.
Incidents in Picasso's private life and the political events afflicting Europe between the wars fused together in the motifs the painter was using at the time, resulting both in Guernica itself and all the studies and 'postscripts', regarded as among the most representative works of art of the 20 th century.

Paloma Esteban Leal

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Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso) - Guernica

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Picasso, Pablo (Pablo Ruiz Picasso): Guernica

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Artist: Jacob Lawrence, Date: 1947, Medium: Tempera painting on hardboard

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Jacob Lawrence’s War Series: Beachhead portrays the chaos and trauma of combat through abstracted, fragmented figures and harsh, clashing colors, capturing the disorienting violence of war. The painting’s fractured composition and unsettling tone convey the lingering mental scars and emotional disarray experienced by soldiers.

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War Series: Beachhead (1947) by Jacob Lawrence – Artchive

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Artist: Tracey Emin, Date: 1998, Medium: Sculpture

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Tracey Emin’s "My Bed," is an unmade bed surrounded by personal debris like empty bottles, cigarettes, and stained sheets, offering a raw, intimate portrait of the artist’s psychological turmoil. The work powerfully represents the visual aftermath of trauma and mental distress, capturing the invisible weight of emotional suffering in physical space.

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Medium

Box frame, mattress, linens, pillows and various objects

Dimensions

Overall display dimensions variable

Collection

Lent by The Duerckheim Collection 2015
On long term loan

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lent by the duerckheim collection 2015
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Edvard Munch, 1895-1902, Lithograph and woodcut, 60.5 x 44.5 cm| MoMA

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Scandinavian artist, Edvard Munch, took an risky approach to his depiction of the Madonna, shown here in dark isolation and unabashed eroticism and vanity—a stark deviation from versions in which she is normally seen in celestial immaculate light, and gracefully embodying prudence. Narcissistic personality traits are often associated with the dark night of the soul, once the mentally inflicted individual has stepped away from the spotlight. Those moments are viscerally gnawing on one's identity. These traits can send a person into exile from the inherent truth of who they are. Munch's Madonna seems to give homage to the Biblical Adam's first wife, Lilith, who was banished from the Garden of Eden and has been given a reputation of being a vain woman who embodies darkness.

By Darin Deangelo

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Madonna -an erotic nude floating inside a blood-red border full of wiggling spermatozoa and, at the lower left, a ghoulish fetus-is one of the most provocative images in Munch's intensely psychological oeuvre. While Munch's title makes blasphemous reference to the Virgin Mary, his dreamlike figure, at once powerful and submissive, conflates that traditional Christian subject with other, more threatening female archetypes of the sort he often mined to develop his themes of longing, jealousy, anxiety, and death. To heighten the charge in his paintings and prints, he forged a modern style involving pulsating rings of color, sometimes offset by black.

Munch's life experiences-including difficult relationships with women and a childhood scarred by the deaths of his mother and sister-informed his work. So did the cultural climate of the 1890s, when social mores and the status of women were on the cusp of sweeping change, and the possibility of greater sexual freedom was often tinged with fear. Revealing his ideas about the primal connections between pleasure and danger, life and death, Munch described Madonna as the climactic "pause when the world stops revolving.... Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come."

Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019)

Born in Scandinavia, a region known for long periods of cold and darkness, Edvard Munch shared the Symbolist mentality of artists and writers from that locale and throughout Europe in the 1890s. He rejected the Impressionist practice of studying effects of light on the external world and instead looked inward to explore themes of love and jealousy, loneliness and anxiety, and sickness and death. His personal history, with the premature loss of his mother and an older sister, as well as complex and unsatisfactory entanglements with women, provided him with a constant source of artistic motifs. The practices of painting, drawing, and printmaking were intertwined for Munch as he reinvestigated the same themes throughout his career. Printmaking was particularly conducive to this practice since he could save his plates, stones, and woodblocks for reuse time and again. Working with professional printers, or availing himself of a press in his studio, he explored some seven hundred fifty subjects in prints, varying his imagery in nearly thirty thousand impressions. Such experimentation can be seen here in red and black examples of The Sick Child I, and in three versions of The Lonely Ones, interpreted in both woodcut and etching. Munch sometimes used the same motif in a painting and a print, and a comparison of the two shows the print to be greatly simplified, achieving a sense of essence. Complex emotions are distilled into universal symbols by removing narrative references. Woodcut, in particular, lent itself to this approach. Munch's practice of cutting his blocks like a jigsaw puzzle in order to ink them in sections also enhanced a sense of isolation and abstraction. And the way in which he allowed the patterns of the wood grain to affect his compositions gave an indication of primordial significance. With this approach, the viewer senses artistic process as well as motif, something that would become an underlying component in much twentieth-century art.

Publication excerpt from Deborah Wye, Artists and Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

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Edvard Munch. Madonna. 1895-1902. Lithograph and woodcut. composition: 23 13/16 x 17 1/2" (60.5 x 44.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 33 11/16 x 23 3/8" (85.6 x 59.3 cm). Edvard Munch, Berlin. M.W. Lassally, Berlin. The William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A.J. Hall Collection. 114.1956.

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Vito Acconci, 1971, Video (black and white, sound) 22:51 min, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) 

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In this visual performance, Acconci is pointing his finger at the center of the camera, controlling the viewers gaze as their attention is fixated on him as he is obsessively watching himself. This 50+ year old work is demonstrative of the ways in which technological innovations have made an impact on the collective consciousness of mankind today. Our readily accessible cameras and social media platforms have contributed significantly to the ubiquitous damage done to the sense of self. We've become isolated creatures in emotional pain, trapped in lensed box. We are collective modern iterations of Narcissus.

By Darin Deangelo

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Centers : Vito Acconci : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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22′50, 1971 Pointing at my own image on the video monitor: my attempt is to keep my finger constantly in the center of the screenÑI keep narrowing my focus…

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Mickalene Thomas, 2007, Acrylic, enamel and rhinestones on wood panel, 274.3 x 365.8 cm

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Mickalene Thomas subversively reclaims the image of beauty through Black womanhood. Similar to the way Munch portrayed his vainglorious version of Madonna, Thomas centers a nude Black woman in the manner of what viewers would expect from Western art in which a euro-centric archetypal woman is depicted lounging in comfortably in her bourgeois home. Thomas' subject is shown to be safe and well, and comfortable within her complicated relationship with vanity.

By Darin Deangelo

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This gallery invites viewers into the isolated mental cage of narcissistic personality traits and the impact on a person's self-esteem and their image. The primary symptom of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is an inflated sense of self-importance through the excessive need for admiration, lack of deep concern for others, a sense of entitlement, and prone to demonstrating manipulative behaviors. While these are the negative traits of NPD, viewers of this gallery will gain an empathetic understanding that this disorder, like most mental health disorders, can be managed through self-awareness and therapy, cultivating a safe presence in a complexed world.

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Artist: Francisco Goya, Date: 1799, Medium: Etching

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This artwork depicts, a man sleeping with creatures swarming him. It represents how something as a restful as sleep is not enough to escape the feelings of being watched and the fear that comes along with that.

- Eboseremen Ewah

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Artist: James Ensor, Date:1890, Medium: Oil paint on Canvas

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This painting represents paranoia by showing the center figure’s weary body language as they are trapped between grotesque masked figures. It shows that they are uncomfortable not knowing if they are in danger. They are debating if it’s all in their head which is why they haven’t left the situation.

- Eboseremen Ewah

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Artist: Odilon Redon, Date: 1878, Medium: Charcoal Lithograph

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The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Toward Infinity

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The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Toward Infinity

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This artwork represents paranoia by showing an eye in the sky that represents that someone is always watching you. As the people below are living their daily lives, there is someone, maybe God, who is watching them. That thought may invoke fear into some people, a feeling of paranoia, but for others, it may be comforting to know that they are not always alone.

-Eboseremen Ewah

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Artist:  Albrecht Dürer, Date: 1498, Medium: Woodcut

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This artwork represents paranoia as it depicts the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, which is a biblical pre-factor for the end times. The people being trampled over with the horses are the believers who are fearing that the apocalypse is coming because they’re seeing the signs. They may feel scared or anxious that they may lose everything they know along with all the not-so-nice events that come along with the end of the world. This represents paranoia because the four Horsemen aren’t physically there, but people are already scared for the end of the world which hasn’t happened yet.

-Eboseremen Ewah

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This gallery invite its viewers to understand the fear and anxiety a person who has paranoia may feel. They are anxious that people are watching them. They are fearful of what they do not know and what is to come. Explore the artworks and their different representations of paranoia.

-Eboseremen Ewah

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Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that affects how a person feels, thinks and acts. People with BPD often have strong emotions that change quickly. They may feel scared of being left alone, not knowing who they really are, or have a hard time keeping relationships . The artworks displayed hello show what it feels like to live with BPD