Curator's Talk: Mental Health Awareness

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  1. Hello and welcome to my exhibition titled Bringing Light to
  2. Mental Health.
  3. The art in this exhibition was picked in order to
  4. help inform viewers about normalizing mental health.
  5. About one in five adults have experienced a mental illness.
  6. Although it is so common, many individuals continue to be
  7. afraid about discussing their mental health.
  8. After viewing this exhibit, I hope that awareness can be
  9. spread and that every individual can reflect on their own
  10. lines. The first piece of artwork that was included in
  11. this exhibition is titled All for Not Forget Me Not
  12. by Rose Clancy.
  13. This sculpture discusses how the artist had realized her mother
  14. had suffered with mental illness and brings you back to
  15. your early childhood.
  16. In this sculpture, her mother is being portrayed as the
  17. wheelchair while the artist is portrayed as the little girl
  18. on the tricycle, reaching for keys potentially a cure to
  19. her mother's mental illness.
  20. The artist wants you to take away the message that
  21. everyone should make sure to take care of their mental
  22. health. The next piece that was included was titled Mixed
  23. Up Model by Charlie and Eddie Proudfoot.
  24. This artwork was created by Charlie and Eddie Proudfoot, who
  25. although are very known but keep their identity very secret.
  26. In order to create this piece, they used a human
  27. figure but distorted all the colors in order to bring
  28. life to the mental disorder of disassociation.
  29. Their main goal is to take away all distinguishable features
  30. of an individual and mask it away to show that
  31. an individual's physical appearance is nothing compared to the rial
  32. beauty of an individual's mind.
  33. The third piece that was included is titled In Flight
  34. by Lyn Godley.
  35. This artwork display 75 photos of wings and tail feathers
  36. of birds that fiber optic lights were threaded through.
  37. When this first was brought into an exhibit, the artist
  38. was mesmerized because individuals would spend hours looking at this
  39. piece and oftentimes would return back to it.
  40. After doing countless amounts of research, she realized that the
  41. lights were linked to healing and the same type of
  42. lights are used for light therapy.
  43. After coming to this realization, the artist decided to place
  44. this piece in places that individuals could view as a
  45. stress reliever.
  46. In addition, this, um, piece helped inspire God these future
  47. pieces. The next piece that was included is titled Black
  48. on Grade by Mark Rothko.
  49. This piece of art was one of the last pieces
  50. that the artist published before tragically taking his own life.
  51. Although there is no direct message that the artist wanted
  52. the viewer to take away from this piece, each individual
  53. is able to reflect on the darkness that was foreshadowing
  54. the artist's life.
  55. The next piece that was included is called No.
  56. Five F 1959.
  57. This piece of art displays a visual representation of what
  58. the artist has had to deal with her whole life
  59. because of her mental disorder.
  60. As a young child, she began to see hallucinations, and
  61. after becoming scared, she would document them her works air
  62. created to break the stigma about mental health and how
  63. should be addressed instead of tucked away.
  64. Yeah, In addition, she includes her artwork and discusses her
  65. mental health thoroughly because she wants individuals to be put
  66. into her own shoes and what she has to deal
  67. with on a daily basis.
  68. The last piece that I included was entitled Your Pain
  69. Is My Pain by Paula Scott ER This artwork displays
  70. how many times individuals tend to put their own needs,
  71. second to others, although this could be beneficial in the
  72. short term, it is not good because individuals start to
  73. lose themselves because all they're trying to do is to
  74. help others.
  75. After in the individual in the artwork becomes tired of
  76. putting their needs.
  77. Second, they break free and start to put themselves first,
  78. bringing a sense of happiness.
  79. This piece was included last in my exhibition because it
  80. ties in how important reflecting on your own mental health
  81. truly is because each individual is different and deals with
  82. stress and overwhelming situations in their own way and by
  83. truly getting to know yourself and knowing how to deal
  84. with certain situations can help you in the long run.
  85. Thank you so much for attending my exhibition.