Beautiful
Pippa H.
Adobe Fresco/Digital
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My Mother had schizophrenia and it was very dramatic for me; I was always both sacred and afraid to face her. It didn't want to be around her at all even when she finally got on medication. It wasn't until much later when I dealt with some mental health issues of my own did I truly realize how dark and murky your mind can be. There was also something really beautiful about that unique mindset that you enter when you completely swim through it but still come out the other side. My mother was truly beautiful in her perseverance to over come her disease, and in this digital illustration I made of her I tried to capture ever bit of beauty I saw in her as she swam through that murky ocean of mental illness. Like the pink splotch on the picture, mental illness can seem like bothersome mistake, but it is apart of the picture nonetheless.
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It means fully unwrapping and accepting the full absurdity of your existence and trying to convey the meaning of that absurdity to others. There are many interpretations, many possibilities of what that absurdity means and creating that absurdity on a new level is even more amazing.
