Ethereal

A media artwork, made by TouchDesigner during the artist’s bipolar disorder.

The way to attain stability is to reduce the excessive attention to ‘myself’, and to devote oneself to actual life and to the creation of beauty and vitality. –Cathay HUANG

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As you stop creating things, your talents become no more important. All you have left is your aesthetic; but aesthetic gonna kill you, make you repel others and become illiberal. Thus, to create! — 2022 Opening remarks of China Academy of Art

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Artistic Statement

Many artists like Van Gogh have vulnerable souls, but sometimes we can only find our inner peace when we are in the center of arashi, and we can see art creation as a kind of expressive art threapy.

Bipolar Disorder(BD), also be called “genius disease”, is recognized as a mental illness that needs professional treatment. It is rather painful to live in the normal life for most patients. However, to Joyce, she doesn’t really regard it a disease that should be afraid of or eliminated; during the 7-year long process when co-exist with it, she found the best way to overcome the pain is to devote herself to the artwork creation, which is, to use another practical way to express, as well as make it poetic.

Then, it happens to be ethereal, beautiful and unique.

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Process

I used the pics of brain in health condition and in bipolar disorder condition via internet sources, and made the programme in TD to achieve this beautiful effect: