My Visual Responses to How Art and Mental Health Intersect for Me
Today I thought that I would share my own interview responses to the Visual Interviews prompts I have offered to others.
I love learning about the intersection of art and mental health from people through interviews, and I’ve found that answers given only in images provide me with a different insight than the typical ones given in words.
I’m a wordy person but here’s what happens when I try to stick to images answering the questions that I care about most.
What does the term mental health mean to you?
What does your own history of mental health look like?
What does creativity mean to you?
How have mental health symptoms impacted your creative process?
How have mental health symptoms impacted the content of your creativity?
In what ways have mental health symptoms impacted your creative medium?
How have mental health symptoms impacted your productivity as an artist?
How have mental health symptoms impacted your self-perception / identity as an artist?
In what ways have mental health symptoms impacted the perception of you as an artist by others?
What does the relationship between art and money look like for you?
What does the relationship between art and work look like for you?
How is art therapeutic/cathartic/healing for you?
How has art hindered/harm your mental health? Or been complicated vs. all positive?
In summary, for you, what is the relationship between art and mental health?
After completing the earlier questions, what is one more image that you feel compelled to share in response to all of this?
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So interesting🤔
I viewed yours after Marina’s. Amazing how different we come at things, not just as artists, but as people. Yet probably not surprising. Something I’ll have to try some time, maybe with questions relating to happiness?!