Henderirum Museum

The Henderirum Museum is creating a new exhibit that deals with psychology of the mind and how it handles life experiences. The Art pieces can show symbolic representations of how the indivual minds process everyday events to extremely traumatizing ones. The exhibit will be focus on helping people see this events in a physical medium, inspiring people to observe theses changes in a different perspective.
This commission asks for an art piece that asks for creative work on how the human nature deals with change. The statement is broad on which events to actually focus on. This I believe leaves the artist with plenty of creative room to interpret the proposal that best fits their own style. With that in mind I choose to focus my pieces of art on the effects of traumatizing events on the mind. While my piece does focus on a stressful event I don’t want to force the viewer in to seeing it that way. The colors and images aims to have the viewer see it as a learning experiences rather than a tragic one.
The struggle of bouncing back from distressing events and dealing with change in general has always had quite a few of different effects on a person psychological state of being. So I tried to developed concepts around the idea of very universal
So it would be fairly easy to pick a number of artist that do this well but I choose only one. Frida Kahlo paintings are mostly self-imagery of her own traumatizing events. From her painful bus accident, to her numerous surgeries afterwards, she expressed these events rather vividly in her art. Pieces like Henry Ford Hospital (1992) and The Two Fridas (1939) are very good examples of traumatic effects on a person psyche. While most of her art consisted of a deep undertone of sadness my pieces is meant to alleviate that tone. The viewer should still feel the imagery is personal but in the perspective that he or she benefited greatly from the