Video: Common Sense Collapsed in a Tempest of Doubt: 3D Sculptures from Books by Thomas Whitman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
People with mental disabilities can be treated in different ways: sympathize, condemn, or even try not to notice their existence, so as not to complicate your life. Perhaps the only sure way to cultivate a tolerant attitude towards them in society is to strive to understand them. This attempt was made British designer Thomas Wightmancreating an unusual a series of 3D sculptures from books.
We have already written about how symbolically mental disorders can be depicted on the Culturology.ru website (remember the series of posters by the British artist Graphic Patrick). Thomas Whitman tried to explore the thoughts and feelings of people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and tried to convey in visual images what patients experience.
Thomas Whitman has created a series of 3D sculptures in three parts. The first part of "Drowning from Obsession" ("Drowning from doubt") shows a boat drowning in a maelstrom of paper pages. According to the author, obsession also absorbs sick people who lose all hope of salvation. The second part, Plagued by Doubt, is an open book from which a swarm of insects fly out: people who do not seek to cure their disease are in danger of being swallowed up by doubts and worries. Finally, the third part, "Derailing My Train of Thought", speaks for itself: the wrecked train is the anxiety and panic that takes possession of a person during this illness.
Thomas Whitman notes that the sculptures were not cut from books by accident. A person is like a closed book, even someone who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder can carefully hide it from loved ones and friends. Just as a storm of chaotic emotions can splash out on the reader from the pages of a book, a mentally unhealthy person can also deafen the interlocutor with a flurry of feelings and experiences raging in his soul.
You can even more clearly see the emotions of mentally ill people captured in artistic images by referring directly to the pictures of people suffering from mental illness.
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