conclusion and final arwork

After everyone I've talked to and after all the experiments I've done, I have gained a better understanding of mental health and how people perceive it..... not to mention all the bad press that surrounds such a foggy issue. I've decided to finish this project by composing a poster that raises awareness - just a simple poster that incorporates all the final designs of the mental health creatures I have accumulated from this project. I will further their designs a little bit more to show progression.

I will print out this poster in big hopefully, and submit it with my blog address. I will also carry on looking into different artists and stuff to round of my project.

Different mental health awareness posters as a starting point:

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(1)http://www.healthyplace.com/insight/quotes/quotes-on-mental-illness-stigma/

(2)https://www.clipartsgram.com/download/4IBszTl

(3)https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/338895940688813360/

(4) https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/150378075035440343/

IDEAS FOR POSTER CATCHY LINES:

This doesn't define me

Invisible? Not to me

Invisible me

Mental Assault

No words

it's not me its my monster? 

might seem too negative - some people like their disorders.could be meant positively too. its got a nice ring to it though.

Many words but no ears

Don't speak - listen

Use your ears not your mouth.

Don't judge. 

HERE ARE A FEW DRAFTS I DREW UP

 

Have all the monsters faded into the feathers or around the mask? Mask = people trying to be who they are not: Drama, hiding ect.

 

Have someone smiling -acceptance, with all the monsters behind her?



Have someone laughing but have the monsters wisping out of his mouth? acceptance



I LOVE THIS ONE! its not too dark and unhappy, yet not too cheerful. its magical, attention grabbing and I'm hoping it will get people interested in my blog. This is an awareness poster for my blog - to try and raise awareness for mental health. Almost like a movie poster. I want people to be interested by this yet not give anything away. I like the deliberately blacked out letters too - I feel it adds to the weirdness; like black holes in space - feeling hopless and lost.

I will use the poster with the mask, as I feel it has more relevance to trying to hide your 'shame' or disorder, than the other one does. The aim of this poster is to show people hide away from this topic a lot and don't really talk about it - mental health is taboo. So its like pretending to be something your not - or asking people to be something they're not. I also think its interesting how all the different disorder monsters fit in the headpiece, and there's enough showing to be intriguing, yet not enough to give too much away. It combines the space idea for the ADHD experiments, to to the depression creatures, and the anxiety creatures ect.

As this is my final experiment I plan to print this out HUGE and submit this alongside my blog and any other work I may have. I conclude this project by realizing I didn't know anything about mental health, when it got down to it; I have learnt so much - I learnt that there are many other people out there who think a lot like me (some a lot more extreme though!) also I have learnt that depression and anxiety; despite me originally thinking it was just someone being pathetic; is actually quite frightening and can be hard to struggle with. I never realized just how vividly people see their problems and its made me think that maybe people aren't as 'normal' as they may seem .

I got to talk to so many people - both that I knew, and ones I didn't - I got to talk to people all over the world - in different countries, different ages - I got children involved with primary drawings, and I even found studying the Rorschach test incredibly interesting. It's made me see people, for one, in a new light, not to mention art. Art can be used for bridging commutative barriers , in languages, and also its apparent, in alternate physiological conditions.

My aim of this project was to inform myself as well as others, who may be more visually oriented, that mental health is a real problem, and just because you can't see it doesn't mean its not there. I feel I have really achieved this with this project. It was enlightening as well as interesting; I found it enjoyable doing the experiments and talking to people, and recording the data, so it wasn't like I got bored and fabricated evidence - I have looked at things that I didn't even know existed before, such as William Utermolen's work, as well as talking to Katie Gough, with her website: invisible I.

I feel I've developed a style over this project, my work has improved in leaps and bounds, and It's been so lovely to look into things I am interested in.