TOBY ALLEN
http://www.boredpanda.com/mental-illnesses-illustrated-by-monsters-by-toby-allen/
Toby Allen is an artist with anxiety who cleverly recreated different mental health problems, as little illustrations, which are both endearing, yet at the same time could be quite frightening. I decided to include some of his work as it is another stepping stone in my research and I find his work quite interesting. Also his interpretation of each illness is extremely fascinating.
All of these pictures of his work are from the links above.
He doesn't illustrate disorders, just illness's but I will include them all anyway as they are quite interesting to look at. Firstly I'll include the few illness's I am looking at myself for this project. Then underneath I will put his other creations. In a way, I suppose by physically manifesting these conditions as something to look at, it could make sufferers feel like they have something to focus on specifically, instead of just the 'idea' of an invisible yet highly debilitating condition.
I also think that as monsters are something that we don't really believe in because we can't see them, Its a play on that - people don't believe in mental illness's much unless they've either had one or had someone in their lives have one - so by combining the two hes created something that's real yet not. People don't believe it because they can't see it. Kind of what I'm planning on doing with the mental illness's and disorders in my FMP. By turning them into mythical creatures; dragons. Just because we can't see things doesn't mean they don't exist.
Other conditions he's recreated:
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