A psychiatric patient goes through dozens of medication boxes every year. I collect these discarded medication boxes and use a scanner to distort the designs into new images, which are expanded into paintings. The swirling moods and disorientation of medicated/unmedicated states are represented in the tonally-similar palettes and agitated stria of the scan-stretched letters.
The only intelligible phrase is 'TELL YOUR DOCTOR', a soundbite which bombards viewers of psychiatric drug advertisements. We tell our doctors about everything from side effects to our deepest emotions. A psychiatric patient’s emotionally-fraught relationship with doctors and psychiatric medications is central to my work.
'Tell Your Doctor Seven (Racing Thoughts)'; Detail
'Tell Your Doctor Seven (Racing Thoughts)'
'Tell Your Doctor Two (Akathisia)'
'Tell Your Doctor Three (Depressive Rumination)'
'Tell Your Doctor Five (Visual Hallucinations)'
'Tell Your Doctor Six (Flight of Ideas)'
'Tell Your Doctor Two (Akathisia)'; Detail
Research
'Medication Box Archive'
'Tell Your Doctor Scan'