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Edith Lebeau is a Canadian portrait artist based in Montreal, Québec whose enthralling pieces focus on mental health awareness and destigmatizing mental illness. Lebeau showcases…
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Many of us are familiar with the feelings of guilt that arise in the moments we deem ourselves to be “unproductive.” Entelechy, a sister duo…
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Richard George Davis is a South African artist who creates surreal dream-like artworks which represent literal interpretations of common language expressions or emotions . The…
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Richmond Kobla is a Ghanaian-born photographer based in Sydney, Australia. His project “Men Do Not Cry” was inspired by a written blog from fellow Sydney-based…
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In his current body of work, Mark Gagne expresses depression, anxiety and isolation. What makes his artwork unique is that he has struggled with mental…
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Christian Morrisseau is an Ojibwa artist and the father of one of the seven indigenous students whose lives were taken in Thunder Bay. His painting,…
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Art can be a useful method of expressing emotions that are difficult to convey through words. Elianne is able to do this in her artwork…
![Mental health, Criminally Insane, Prison, Chair, Freaktography, Abandoned Asylum, images, photography, Loss, mental illness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/BAFE525B-8AE3-4735-92AB-0C15C045F296-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Remnants still remain of an abandoned asylum that used to house the criminally insane in New York. A photographer by the name of Freaktography managed to…
![Dementia, Death, Sculptures, Anxiety, Courage, Creativity, Images, Psychology, Mental Health, Neoclassical art](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/07/36A69832-728E-45AC-913F-2A79126ABBAC-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
Yannoulis Chalepas is well-regarded as being the most notable sculptor of modern Greece. Born in 1851, Chalepas followed in his father’s footsteps by helping run…
![History, Trauma, Images, Hero, Death, Hope, Massacre, PTSD, Warfare, Triumph](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2019/06/C84F9E58-1177-4C4B-9991-C19FA80A9499-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
This infamous image was captured in 1989 by Jeff Widener during the Tiananmen Square Massacre. A horrific historical tragedy that left an uncountable number of…