![Paintings, Schizophrenia, Artist, Creative, Psychosis, Psychotic, Delusions, Hallucinations, Art, Creativity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/12/greg-rakozy-oMpAz-DN-9I-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Mitchell Rockert was a brilliant artist, musician, son, brother, cousin, and friend, and he struggled for many years with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder in…
![graffiti, street art, Banksy, social justice, Ukraine, domestic violence, crack epidemic, artwork, mural, anonymous, artist](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2023/03/4846763015_93969acf44_c-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Known for his dark humor and antiauthoritarian masterpieces, anonymous street artist Banksy continues to make headlines. This Bristol-born activist, and film director’s true identity is subject…
![Mental Health, Ignorance, Madness, Art, Artist, Watercolour, Suffocation, Isolation, Depression, Anxiety, Protection, Anguish, Coping](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/12/liza-polyanskaya-PrXN8-YG5WI-unsplash-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The work “Lucidity Begets Madness” by Canadian artist James Livingston is offered up as a counterpoint to the expression “ignorance is bliss”. Lucidity Begets Madness…
![art, Andy Warhol, pop art, illustration, artist, graphic design, commercial art, painting, death, celebrity](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/11/mingjun-liu-sIQjmV4Avsg-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Our attempt to understand the mystifying mind of the legendary visual artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February…
![Artist, Artwork, Mental Health, Anxiety, Jayoon Choi, Recovery, Rehabilitation, Anxiety Disorder, Struggle, Pain](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/10/tim-marshall-T-AOFf2B8Zw-unsplash-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“There is a moment when you can’t help but sinking down deep into the shit. Attacked by a spiteful thought. But Oh dear! I was…
![Art, Artist, Canadian, Hope, Mental Health, Light in the Darkness, Self, Hummingbird, Mind, Healing, Symbolism, Freedom](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/09/cherry-laithang-NmPpz1jA_JE-unsplash-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Autumn B Livingston is a Canadian artist based in Toronto Ontario, who has a series of artworks that focus and reflect upon her own mental…
![Dizzy Girl Holding Head](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/06/uday-mittal-bwKtz4YVtmA-unsplash-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
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…
![Yellow birds taking off in flight from road](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2022/06/Trappings-of-Masculinity-image-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The poems of author Charles Bukowski drudge through the mundane aspects of everyday life; but there is a bittersweet candidness to his observations that pull…
![Fatherless Son](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2021/08/C2F5EFC5-4C95-4CF7-BD19-29BADF1478DB-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
“Fatherless Son” is an acrylic painting by Alexander Robinson completed in 2019. The piece appears to be a reflection of how one’s identity continues to…
![image, mental health, schizophrenia, art, self portrait, watercolour, watercolor, zelda fitzgerald, artist, institutionalization, mental institution](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2020/11/DE0C105E-4523-4B78-BCA4-E407388A79C8-470x140.jpeg?x81652)
The enigmatic Zelda Fitzgerald embodied the spirit of the Jazz Age and era of American flappers in the 1920s. Shadowed at the time by her…