Inspiration

Other people’s art:

♦ beyond amnesty: a zine I found on activist-trauma.net . It is about self-harm, estrangement, and how inner and outer disorder bleed into one

♦ Roos James – ‘pervasive, persistent, problematic’

♦ Sophie Ann’s poetry

♦ Leunig- ‘seven types of ordinary happiness’

♦ Judith Kusel – ‘she is the spiralling dance of creation’

♦ Alison Nappi’s inner child letter

♦ Hyperbole’s comic about depression

‘An unreal world’: a short film about depersonalisation

‘The Schizoid Wound’ by Nikolaos Athanassakis

Shawn Coss – 18 disturbing drawings of mental illness

Gerald B. Frank – ‘Tinnitus A’

♦ Oriah Mountain Dreamer: two of my favourite poems are ‘The Invitation’ (on oriah’s website) and ‘The Dance’

♦ Drawing outside the lines

♦ Ben Hopper’s natural beauty series

Some local artists & mental health advocates:

♦ Heidi Everett

♦ Donna Williams

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