Current Ideas

discrimination against women (were more likely to be burnt as witches than men were)

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/283/the-history-of-mental-illness-from-skull-drills-to-happy-pills

development of treatment for mental illness over time

"for the sake of lifting the burden off of ashamed families and preventing any possible disturbance in the community."

"treated mentally ill patients like animals."

ties into the war and the treatment of Jews?

"Violent patients were put on display like sideshow freaks for the public to peek at for the price of one penny; gentler patients were put out on the streets to beg for charity (Butcher 36)."

"human bodies contained a magnetic fluid that was affected by the planets and determined one’s health depending on its distribution"

Labyrinth

beast in the labyrinth

turns out to be the person who is mentally ill

Francis bacon

use tape to actually distort the face

boxes

use the different techniques to show the development of the stigma behind mental illness and how the outside view has changed vs the reality behind it

take a photo of someone paint on it and scrunch it up then take photo on white background

stitches images together to create a face

IDEAS!!!!

Altering the images physically eg. take pictures of a persons face print it out and paint on it/ cut it up/ sew it back together like a distortion and have them hold it back over their faces or just on a white background then retake the photo

surround it with things that represent mental illness or things that represent them a a person.

the kind of direction I want to take my images:

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Black water dripping

stocking over face

if I look at mental illness specifically in women I can use imagery of feminism irony

words over their faces

like animals

Annegret Soltau

Waldemar Strempler

jose romussi