NON – ARTIST RESEARCH

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER → MOVIE DIRECTOR → STEPHEN CHBOSKY

• CONTENT:

A movie about a boy who has depression, just discharged from a metal intuition he goes back to school where he meets some seniors and became friends with them makes some memories and new experiences, he is able to say he feels alive

• QUOTES:

- “and in that moment, I swear we were infinite”

- “I didn’t think anyone notice me”

- “I would die for you, but I won’t life for you”

- “we didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together”

• QUESTIONS RAISED: How does actually just the of a friend or a person that we can connect can help to make life easier? Is there really a way to life ”peaceful” even if it is for a brief moment?

DPR IAN → SINGER ALBUM → MOODSWINGS IN THIS OREDER, 2021

• CONTENT: An album about bipolar disorder and how the artist has experience living with this disorder in his daily life and how it can affect the way he works and his personal life

• QUOTES:

• QUESTIONS RAISED:

- How difficult has to be to live with a mood swing and not knowing how often it can happen?

- Is there really a way to mental health issues in a positive way?

- “It’s hard to breath when you are not there”

- “ I know you feel the same. I tell myself to let go the pain, so sick of keeping it all”

- “ why does no one understand when I say I will drift away”

- “ I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine”

- “ before I change again, remind me of the time when I still remember”

The collages which are both sides are the two faces of metal health. One side is the side people show the society and the other one is the one they have when they are alone in their own mind and also how mental illnesses can affect in their day life

I have done 4 collages about:

1. Bipolar disorder

2. Anxiety disorder > Social Anxiety

3. Schizophrenia

4. Dissociative identity disorder/ multiple personality disorder

• Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings.

This first one is about bipolar disorder I used a final outcome from year 12, in the collage you can see two different continuous lines with two different colours, blue and red, these lines represent the disorder and the mood they might have at the moment the blue line represent anger and the red line represents fear.

The collages show how sudden a mood change can be and how much time the person can last in that mood but those mood changes are sometimes caused by an external reason that they can control, people can help to reduce those mood changes by taking medicine or therapies.

There is also a yellow line but in very few part and you can see it perfectly as it contrast with the dark blue and red, this colour shows the happiness or when they feel exited about something This mood of happiness don’t affect them that much on a daily basis however anger and fear affects them is a negative way as it makes it difficult for them to socialise and go to public places as other people might not know about it and get scared and try to cut ties with them.

• Schizophrenia is a mental health condition where you may see, hear or believe things that are not real.

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), multiple personality disorder or multiple personality syndrome, is a mental disorder characterised by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states