Initial Ideas

Van Gogh, self portrait 1889

Mono print with pen, 42 X 30 Cm

I have done some research into different types of mental illness so I could develop my ideas and in what way I could take my work and how in will make my work. I have found this really interesting because mental illness is something that isn't really understood and new discoveries about are made every day. After my research I have been looked pacifically into mental illness that makes you obsessively draw and write as this is the illness that I was most interested in, however I looked at the links between art and mental illness and discovered that the was a really strong correlation between the both. In particular there is a link between bipolar disorder which is one of the main illnesses I was looking at in my first research. 

one of my drawings 30 X21 cm

According to research I found that there was a high possibility that artists can develop a mental illness because they tend to question the boundaries and limits to things that normal people don't. I have conducted research into artists that have lived with mental illness to see how there work develops. I have started to make drawings in the way that someone who suffer from this obsessive disorder which also ties in with my idea of really trying to test my boredom threshold and push it to the limit. I think that my next move will be to develop the patterns and to see how I could take it further by doing more research and then drawings.