Finalising Ideas Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Ideas for a makeup to reflect the symptom of hallucionation experienced by a schizophrenic

Psychological Disorders

Sleep Paralysis Stories - Symptoms, Causes & Solutions, (2015). Hypnopompic Hallucinations – Causes, Effects and Best Available Remedies to the Prevailing ProblemSleep Paralysis Stories – Symptoms, Causes & Solutions | Sleep Paralysis Stories - Symptoms, Causes & Solutions. [online] Available at: http://sleep-paralysis-info.com/hypnopompic-hallucinations/ [Accessed 23 Mar. 2015].

Dodho Magazine, (2013). The creativity of Sonja Hesslow |Photography|. [online] Available at: http://www.dodho.com/the-creativity-of-sonja-hesslow/ [Accessed 23 Mar. 2015].

Dailygrail.com, (2015). Auditory Hallucinations, Brought to You by [Insert Name Here] | The Daily Grail. [online] Available at: http://www.dailygrail.com/Conspiranoia/2013/7/Auditory-Hallucinations-Brought-You-Insert-Name-Here [Accessed 23 Mar. 2015].

Seeing spots: Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern - in pictures (2012). Pinterest. Available at: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/29203097553591836/ (Accessed: 24 March 2015).

Hallucinations

Hallucinations are sensations that appear real but are created in your mind. They can affect all 5 senses. They may be caused by mental illness, the side effects of medications, or physical illnesses such as epilepsy or alcoholism.

Types of hallucinations:

Visual- visual hallucinations involve seeing things that aren’t there, the hallucinations may be of objects, visual patterns, people, and/or lights.

Olfactory hallucinations- these involve your sense of smell. You may imagine you can smell a bad odour on yourself for example, or may wake up n the middle of the night from a bad odor that isn’t real. You can also hallucinate with enjoyable smells like perfumes.

Auditory Hallucinations- these are the most common. Hearing voices in ones head, or hearing noises like foot steps and repeated clicking noises.

Tactile Hallucinations- this is where hallucinations involve touch or movement in your body. For example you may feel bugs crawling on your skin.

Temporary Hallucinations- these may occur when someone is grieving over the death of a loved one, they may hear that persons voice.

The causes:

Mental illnesses are the most common to cause hallucinations, other causes are substance abuse, lack of sleep, medications, terminal illnesses, high fever, migraines, social isolation, seizures, deafness/blindness, or epilepsy (in some cases epileptic seizures can cause you to see flashing shapes or bright spots)

Sonja Hesslow has created this image; Sonja is a photographer that has engineered her dreams and fantasy’s by using Photoshop. She collects inspiration from her dreams, music, second and stories, or from other photographer’s/paintings. This image could help to represent the feelings of someone trying to hide from their mental illness but their inner person with the mental illness does not go away.

I came across this image whilst looking at hypnopompic hallucinations, and came across some interesting information. Hypnopompic hallucinations are the disorder in which a person perceives visual and aural illusions after waking up. They are usually caused by the impairing functions in the frontal lobe. They occur when the brain becomes unable to adjust quickly from the phenomenon of getting awaken from the dreaming state. It seems that the person is still in the state of dream and is not able to become familiar with the real world. This results in images and sounds from the dream getting carried over into the person’s conscious perception. Insomnia (often seen in psychological disorders/depression/drug addiction) is the primary cause for impaired mental function, which is associated with these critical hallucinations.

The image above shows a representation of the neurochemicals in the brain whilst someone is dreaming; the colours and shapes show the extremity of the activity occurring in the brain.

I love the emotion in this image, and I instantly felt like it could be re created in a makeup, especially to explain the feelings of someone living with a psychological disorder experiencing auditory hallucinations. It shows the anger and frustration of someone who cannot control the voices they hear in their head.

Here is an example of Yayoi Kusama’s work, her motifs for her work have rooted back from when she experienced hallucinations from which she suffered from childhood, in which the world appears to her to be covered with proliferating forms. Yayoi uses any surface as her canvas and creates intricate lattice of paint to cover them. Her sculptures are of everyday objects that are made uncanny with a covering of soft-sculpture phallic forms or dried macaroni, to monumental outdoor sculptures, and to the entrancing illusions of recent experimental mirrored room installations. Her infinitesimal work is unlimited in scale and allows the viewer to enter into a fully realised world. It is interesting to see how other artists have used their hallucinations in their artwork, her artwork has inspired me for a potential look in my makeup, and I have used a collection of her images to help me start my designing process.

Lee, S. (2012) ‘Seeing spots: Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern - in pictures’, The Guardian, 7 February. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/07/yayoi-kusama-tate-modern-in-pictures (Accessed: 7 April 2015).

More inspiring work by Yayoi Kusama

creative makeup (2015). Pinterest. Available at: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335940453430676825/ (Accessed: 7 April 2015).

Initial Designs

I started designing my makeups with the influence of the images I have researched on hallucinations; I began to consider the crazy patterns and shapes that are familiar in representing a hallucination. This first pattern, shown below, I made up random shapes and began to see faces in them, I continued on to make eyes, lips and noses creating multiple features in the pattern. In my second design I have created multiple eyes on the face, which I plan to create in silicone pieces that would look realistic. To create this piece I would need to build some skin around the outer edge so that the eye appears to be sunken into the face, I am also considering using dolls eyes for the eye ball itself as it may be too complicated to make this from scratch. A dolls eye would be an effective inexpensive approach to this part of my design. I want to keep the look fashion based but with prosthetics. I have experimented using patterns and colours on the face around the eye which I feel does not work well in the way I have designed it so I will be re designing and hopefully create a design with elements that compliment each other. I feel at the moment the design needs to be more simplistic. As the right side of the face has an exaggeration of eyes, I took this concept of exaggeration onto the other side of the face and exaggerated the eyelashes. The photo below I came across on my Facebook feed of a chandelier has inspired this part of the design. I loved the design of this piece, it instantly reminded me of my extended eyelashes so I have used this in my designs.

Here, I have experimented with designing for a body paint piece; I have used random colours and shapes inspired by the artworks I have looked at. I would like to complete a whole body art, however, maybe not for my final makeup. I feel this would not be challenging enough for myself, or at least this design would not.

Some more experimentation with colours and patterns, I designed this piece after seeing Yayoi Kusama’s work. At this stage I am still unsure of where my designs will end up, but it is really helpful for me to start producing designs with colours, shapes, and basic outlines. Producing quick simple designs can help me figure out what is going to be effective, and still send out an awareness of the subject of my work.

My designs are improving the more I develop them, so I plan to spend more time designing during my research phase. I have focused on keeping this design more simplistic, and I have played on the idea of the inspiring photograph of the chandelier (photographed by a friend in Rome) to represent someone being in a delusional state. I added drops of bleach, which has taken away the ink of the biro and given a bright light effect. I am now contemplating what material I could use to create this look, and also the practicality for its use on the eye (i.e. it needs to be very light weight). I have again created an eye prosthetic, but only one to keep it simpler. I have mirrored this eye, which helps to create a more delusional look to the viewer.

Hair Ideas to link into the representation of the hallucinations/creativity a schizophrenic posesses

Hair as an Object of Creative Expression

Three Images Above:

Mora, E. (no date) Hair as an Object of Creative Expression

Garrad, A. (2015) Photographer

Wikipedia says: “Hair has great social significance for human beings.” That is right. Hair, or the lack of it, could be so defining for human beings. Hair has been and continues to be an object of interest for creative people. Below you see a group of images that illustrate the expressive possibilities of hair that I find inspiring. The images reflect a symbol or emotion which is how I want my hair pieces to look.

Learning new techniques by watching tutorials. This hairstyle is very intricate, it is interesting to see the methods of how it is done. Here, the hairdresser sections the hair exceptionally neat, and uses products to smooth out the hair. She uses 6 sections as a french plait which creates a grid shape, a really interesting intricate look.

GIGHair (2011) UP-STYLE DREAMS 1. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZNRAfzf4k (Accessed: 8 May 2015)

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