Showing posts with label SENDANDRECIEVE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SENDANDRECIEVE. Show all posts
THE BECKLIN CENTER:
I spoke to a volunteer organizer for The Becklin Center, a psychiatric hospital in Leeds about volunteering for the send an receive brief, I will be sent an application form ASAP.
I think this choice of people and places to work with is important to me, mental health patients are constantly tabooed by our society, "lets put them in a home and forget about them", people don't know what's going on right on their doorstep, the soldiers in Afghanistan fighting for our country is blasted through the media in your face everyday, and I do support them, but I think maybe sometimes there is suffering right here that we just sweep under the carpet. I want to try and understand the patients experience and perception of the world, and I want to care.
General view of the island Neveranger, 1911 by Adolf Wölfli a mental health patient who suffered from psychosis and an 'Outsider Artist'
I think this choice of people and places to work with is important to me, mental health patients are constantly tabooed by our society, "lets put them in a home and forget about them", people don't know what's going on right on their doorstep, the soldiers in Afghanistan fighting for our country is blasted through the media in your face everyday, and I do support them, but I think maybe sometimes there is suffering right here that we just sweep under the carpet. I want to try and understand the patients experience and perception of the world, and I want to care.
General view of the island Neveranger, 1911 by Adolf Wölfli a mental health patient who suffered from psychosis and an 'Outsider Artist'
FIRST THINGS FIRST:
These are genuinely some of the most intelligently written and inspiring pieces of text I've ever read.
They really allow me to understand why the send and receive brief is so important to who I am. After coming from advertising (a soulless form of creativity in my opinion) it's so refreshing to read what I have really been thinking for much of my adult life.
The concept that we, as visual communicators, could make a difference to the world is something that I have been waiting for someone to allow me to think. Caught up in a society that thrives on money I feel its time to sit back at take a look at what we have all become, a group of people that only care where the next burger king and topshop is going to be...and how we can cash in on it.
I want to make a difference that is real...fuck this industrialized, fast food world, take a look at what's right there infront of you, poverty, war, prejudice and people who don't give a shit.
No more am I this person who doesn't give a shit.
I give a shit and if I change the opinions of one person, that's one less casualty wounded by our civilization.
They really allow me to understand why the send and receive brief is so important to who I am. After coming from advertising (a soulless form of creativity in my opinion) it's so refreshing to read what I have really been thinking for much of my adult life.
The concept that we, as visual communicators, could make a difference to the world is something that I have been waiting for someone to allow me to think. Caught up in a society that thrives on money I feel its time to sit back at take a look at what we have all become, a group of people that only care where the next burger king and topshop is going to be...and how we can cash in on it.
I want to make a difference that is real...fuck this industrialized, fast food world, take a look at what's right there infront of you, poverty, war, prejudice and people who don't give a shit.
No more am I this person who doesn't give a shit.
I give a shit and if I change the opinions of one person, that's one less casualty wounded by our civilization.
SEND AND RECEIVE 01:
After reading the brief for send and receive I initially thought that I would really enjoy this brief, it allows us to go out there and experience the world, make us rounded and see things that we may have been unaware of.
My first ideas were to volunteer in a psychiatric ward. For a long time now I have been interested in outsider art and the way the the human mind works, what makes us the same, what makes us different.
I am a very liberal person and I have no want to discard my views however I feel it is important to see things from another perspective.
What goes on in a psychiatric ward, how are the patients treated and most interesting of all, what are they thinking?
My first ideas were to volunteer in a psychiatric ward. For a long time now I have been interested in outsider art and the way the the human mind works, what makes us the same, what makes us different.
I am a very liberal person and I have no want to discard my views however I feel it is important to see things from another perspective.
What goes on in a psychiatric ward, how are the patients treated and most interesting of all, what are they thinking?
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