One Month's Supply
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2022-12-16
Authors
Ripko, Abbey
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Thomas, Ian F.
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Jennings, Angela
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One Month’s Supply is a piece which aims to combine conversations around mental health issues with contemporary pop art. This piece shines a light on the ways that psychiatric medicine has become more common than in previous generations due to the epidemic of poor mental health among young adults.
I aim to entice viewers with this project by displaying the brilliant lollipops I have created in a way that pulls viewers to my piece, making them wish they could actually consume the lollipops they see. I want to make viewers ponder the meaning of the medicine bottles in combination with the candy. I am attempting to combine pop art and talks around mental health into a new niche in the contemporary art world.
This art piece is a visual representation of time. Each lollipop varies like each week in my college experience has. Each lollipop was made using the same process time and time over to produce the quantity of lollipops in the piece. Materials included clear cellophane, styrofoam spheres of multiple sizes, wooden dowels, many color beads, crushed glass pieces, colored rocks, as well as party beads, styrofoam beads and plastic tubing.
The medicine bottles are a representation of my journey finding psychiatric medication that can control symptoms of my mental illness, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, as well as help my depression. I have tried four different medications, mainly antipsychotics and antidepressants. These medications have all varied in the way they worked to control my symptoms so I am attempting to represent them in a positive way by putting faux candy in their place.
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Art, Science, and Innovation
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Art