Artist: Nadia Ismail
Year: 2010
Medium: Mixed media surrealist sculpture
Artist Statement: Art therapy has now become a more positive and effective treatment of mental illness, commonly using surrealist expression to communicate. For this (surrealist) portrait, the artist became the “patient” and the “doctor” is the world. The hope is that societies at large will become more aware and have a better understanding of Schizophrenia and the history of treatment. It is therefore art therapy for the world…