Materials:
Printed card
White lace panel and black ruffle
Antique ephemera:
Poem fragments from a book of mourning 1829
Original Text and portrait from The Illustrator Magazine 1895 and The Girls Own 1911
Vintage Gray’s Anatomy Page (of the brain.)
Various other ephemera and embellishments.
Altered printed card
Double-sided, 4 × 6 inches
Graphite, ink, and pastel
Sealed with matte and gloss acrylic medium
I wanted to consider how mental illness may have been viewed in the 19th century. The emotion, institutionalization and social exclusion. This work tells a visually complex story.
Materials:
Printed card
White lace panel and black ruffle
Antique ephemera:
Poem fragments from a book of mourning 1829
Original Text and portrait from The Illustrator Magazine 1895 and The Girls Own 1911
Vintage Gray’s Anatomy Page (of the brain.)
Various other ephemera and embellishments.
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