Art

I am traumatised. I am abused. I am dissociating. I am scared. I am angry. I am grieving. I am lonely. I am not ill. I...

Editor Note: this post was originally published on our sister site Mad in Sweden and is shared here with permission.  Author note: This story is...

 

Labels put people in a box of symptoms and encourage diagnostic overshadow and  pathologization of many creative sides of a person.

In this ‘identity’ project, we ran a series of workshops exploring different aspects of identity through sculpture, collage, and graphic novel. At the end of each workshop, we gave each group participant the option of sharing their piece with the group and describing both the meaning of the piece and their experience of the creative process.