June 8, 2009 at 5:31 am #30221
    wang chung
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    @wang-chung

    I’m trying to think of ways to symbolize someone who is trapped by mental illness (schizophrenia) I was wondering if you could help me form and brainstorm this concept thru an artist perspective of a journey of the life associated with a mental illness/ handicap like… passing by time and life and fighting a battle in your head that you cant win and having your spirit essentially trapped..things of the sort just give me creative answers everything is welcomed if you have any questions I will answer them, any size any color. go wild

    June 8, 2009 at 7:51 am #65545
    hoani
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    @hoani

    Hey there Wang, Split personality, heading in opposite directions, schezophrenia, perhaps the Chinese characters for vice/ versa the scope is endless good luck Hoani.

    June 12, 2009 at 6:08 pm #65675
    Matthias
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    @matthias

    I have an idea you can work with.
    A person in distress behind bars, which are coming out of breaking skin.
    Perhaps with someone chasing after them in the background.

    Perhaps the person should be ghoulish.

    PM me, or get at me on myspace if you want to talk more.

    June 13, 2009 at 4:23 am #65683
    Rockysmom
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    @rockysmom

    I was thinking of a caged bird or a trapped bird in a tree.

    June 13, 2009 at 7:53 am #65688
    wak
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    @wak

    I just sort of had a vision of two faces. They are looking at each other from a profile view. There is a line between them separating them (I was thinking glass but since it would be side-on it would be hard to tell either way what material it was)… anyway, one of the faces is very distressed and is screaming at the top of his lungs at the other one… but since the glass is sound proof, the other face is just staring quite calmly back at him…

    something abut the duality of the illness… and the feeling of not being able to get the true nature of expression / being trapped?

    June 13, 2009 at 8:01 am #65691
    wak
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    @wak

    I just sort of had a vision of two faces. They are looking at each other from a profile view. There is a line between them separating them (I was thinking glass but since it would be side-on it would be hard to tell either way what material it was)… anyway, one of the faces is very distressed and is screaming at the top of his lungs at the other one… but since the glass is sound proof, the other face is just staring quite calmly back at him…

    something abut the duality of the illness… and the feeling of not being able to get the true nature of expression / being trapped?

    June 13, 2009 at 4:40 pm #65701
    hoani
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    @hoani

    Hey there Wang, The whole idea brings to mind the painting(the artists name escapes me,Rembrandt ? )
    “The Scream” its about silent agony,the sufferer has no concept of who he/she is, Dr jeckel and Mr Hyde good luck Hoani.

    June 13, 2009 at 9:14 pm #65710
    wang chung
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    @wang-chung

    your all very helpful

    July 27, 2009 at 2:41 pm #67679
    ntelekt
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    @ntelekt

    Probably a different direction than you may want to go but… As having a comicbook art based style, I’d like to suggest something reminiscent one of the full/double page montages at the end of Alan Moore’s Lovecraftian tale “The Courtyard”…

    The surreal images illustrate the main characters lapse in sanity… Its pretty damn trippy and awesome!

    September 2, 2009 at 4:34 am #70575
    flying eyeball tattoo
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    @flying-eyeball-tattoo

    Maybe something like one of these? These I did several years ago, but came to my mind when I read your description

    September 2, 2009 at 5:03 am #70576
    Shamwow
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    @shamwow

    well ive thought of this before as i used to consider myself a deeply disturbed SOB and half the time i still do haah 😉 but i think im gonna devote myself to religious tattoos

    my concept is a figure of yourself facing into your body so we are seeing your back staring into a mirror with a mirror image of you with no face

    make sense? basically its you looking into the mirror but theres no faces in it cuz we see only your back and the back of your head while your reflection has no face

    October 1, 2009 at 7:21 pm #72664
    notmoses
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    I was intrigued enough to go looking to see what I would find vs. what I see in my own experience. See…

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2008/07/study-links-tat.html

    http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(05)00394-6/abstract

    http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18344183

    http://www.jad-journal.com/article/S0165-0327(99)00136-6/abstract

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B75DB-4PPNM2C-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1031494583&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=070cd0ca3ffc17b87b937444ea805f80

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T2X-40CJXGK-9&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=a0db77743d3d606ca798029b83902adc

    http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20494555

    My direct experience of working with =adolescents= with tattoos and piercings is overwhelmingly that tattoos and piercings are correllated with histrionic, antisocial, paranoid, passive-aggressive, obsessive-compulsive, dependent and schizotypal personality disorders.

    But, of course, I was =only= seeing people who =had= the disorders and were in treatment. I have not seen large numbers of people with decorative tattoos and piercings =outside= professional treatment settings or AA and NA environments.

    October 1, 2009 at 8:32 pm #72670
    AmandaK
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    @amandak

    This makes me think of people who not only have serious schizophrenia but also have serious self-consciousness (which is twice as destructive because they don’t like anyone to know they have delusions). I love the idea of being inside of something glass, and watching the world go on outside. Maybe a dual character who is fearful of what they want but can’t let it go. Definately a two-sided person. Maybe one side with a peaceful expression holding something representing death, like a ticking bomb, and the other (frightened expression) holding something that represent joy and life, and both faces under masks. Great idea. I’ve battled it for years.

    October 31, 2011 at 2:36 am #115015
    RainDerp
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    @rainderp

    What about those happy+sad dramatic masks to represent schiz?

    http://www.mostphotos.com/preview/70446/Theatre-Masks-Happy-And-Sad-Laugh-And-Cry.jpg

    July 19, 2015 at 12:40 pm #155057
    Afink87
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    @afink87

    Maybe a face) with its eyes or mouth sewn shut, which ever is holding that person back most, perhaps some sort of gears or inner demons in the cranium. Idk something playing off that

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