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- Title
SELF AND SCULPTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS: COPING, BURNOUT, RESTORATION, DIS/INTEGRATED, DIS/COMFORT, CONTAINMENT, AND SURVIVING DURING THE 2020 PANDEMIC.
- Authors
ALLEN, ALEXANDRA
- Abstract
This visual essay explores how one individual with mental health disorders navigated the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic during the summer of 2020. Using feminist disability studies as a form of inquiry, the author applies a combination of visual and narrative arts-based methods to explore various coping strategies employed during the shelter-inplace mandate. Throughout this essay, the author describes the creative process and subsequent transformations that occurred while working through feelings of loneliness, guilt, fear, helplessness, aimlessness, anger, disappointment, and most prominently the feeling of being trapped. This essay concludes with recognition of the artistic process that informs the product, finding value in both, while simultaneously encouraging individuals to explore this type of selfreflective creative practice.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; PANDEMICS; MENTAL health; DISABILITY studies; ARTISTIC creation; INQUIRY-based learning; CREATIVE ability
- Publication
Visual Culture & Gender, 2020, Vol 15, p68
- ISSN
1936-1912
- Publication type
Article