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- 1. Hidden Truths Project Hidden Truths, the Mind Unraveled Eisai National Meeting La Jolla, CA
- 3. “Art will always be a messenger—a way to share ideas and explain discoveries—a fantastic and tragic place for human life and dreams” Alexandra Rozenman
- 10. Myoclonic
- 11. Tonic-Clonic
- 13. Post-Ictal
- 14. Confusion
- 15. “My sister has a form of secondary epilepsy. It came on suddenly, it was very alien to my family. Epilepsy has made our lives chaotic, busy, just like the hands. Yet, during the down times the world seems slow and bland, everything around you seems to move in slow motion, therefore I left an area blank. I wanted to show how epilepsy changed me as a person, so I used an actual part of my body to be the canvas.” Devon Franz
- 16. Chaos
- 17. Autism
- 19. “ Epilepsy is an invisible disease…between the medicine putting you in a haze, or headaches after seizures, and even your family tired of hearing you complain, there are the days when the only one you feel like listens is an invisible God, the days you feel stigmatized and alone…Art never complains, art never leaves. It is an expression of my inner self when I can’t find the words to explain.” S. Estock
- 20. MentallyBeatUp
- 22. Depression
- 23. Anger
- 24. “The desire of all artists are to share their ideas, dreams, hopes, and lives on canvas.” Richard Davis
- 29. The artist depicts the world and the people in it by targeting and manipulating the brain’s ability to make models of emotional and perceptual reality. To do this the artist has to understand intuitively the brain’s rules for perception, color, emotion, and empathy. In turn, the brain’s capability for imitation and empathy gives both artist and beholder access to the private mental world of others.” The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain. Eric R. Kandel
- 30. The Journey Has Begun
Editor's Notes
- artist's intacranialeeg and video telemetry including plotting of limb movement’ : prolonged recording digitizedLeft temporal lobe intracranial monitoring, recording 10 sz. 15 min per sz. (pre-ictal, ictal, post-ictal) shape middle movement hands/feet during the sz.
- Pallinopsia: image repetition (occipital sz.)
- Occipital sz
- Temporallobe: “Having epilepsy has made me more imaginative. I see things in every day objects others do not see.”
- “Inside the glass jar is a piece of organic looking material,/ a face that could represent a piece of brain but to me symbolizes the essence of my experience with epilepsy-a physical representation of the desire to dissect and remove this piece of myself.”
- “My seizures cause me to experience changing perceptions and provide the ability to understand existential experiences differently. They provide me a comparative reference point that shows me there is more to what I am seeing.”
- “Seizure expresses the effects of a seizure striking my mind, represented by the fist crushing down throughout my nervous system. The lighter Spirit expresses a crying out when I am physically unconscious.”
- Jacob’s mother: Jacob is a 17 year old who lives with both autism and epilepsy. Although he is non-verbal, Jacob expresses his inner world through art. Epilepsy has not altered his passion or talent for art, but has instead allowed it to blossom and grow. “Since his diagnosis, Jacob now shares more of what is in his mind’s eyes, giving us a glimpse of what used to be hidden. His art is now more introspective. He no longer is a spectator, but he has become an active participant in life and communicates this through his art.”
- An unexpected life with epilepsy has left me figuratively black and blue, mentally beat up, and embarrassingly exposed to the world around me.
- Stuffed Monkey is about the isolation and loneliness experienced when diagnosed. The figure is in the dark, but standing strong.”
- TLE: emotional changes: fear, anger,anxiety, depression
- Right-sided temporal lobe epilepsy: “Having seizures has changed me, making me moody and depressed, changing my color palette (my reds are angry), and making it take longer to decide when a large painting is complete. Seizures and brain surgery has changed how I interpret & re-organize what I see. When I am painting in a place away from everyday distractions (things that make me tense and seizure-prone) my mind is almost clear, and it shows through in my work. She states, she has never had a seizure while painting. The daysafter sz: I hesitate to paint, my method of painting seems out-of-order and more abstract, colors are bold or calm, and the smallest distraction bothers me.”