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.