Carly Bruce — STOIC IDEAS | 2020.ocadu.gd

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Carly Bruce

STOIC IDEAS

Stoic ideas is a project meant to increase awareness about dissociation in a way that is relatable to neurodivergent people who experience dissociative episodes, while also working to bridge the gap of understanding to those who do not experience dissociation.
Throughout this project, I conducted in depth interviews with people who experience dissociation and took photographs of them in an attempt to communicate the variety of stories and experiences.

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This was created by ripping apart content, and then reassembling it without adding or removing any visual information. This is directly informed by experiences with depersonalization, and the inability to recognize the self while in distress.

This is an unsolvable puzzle, as whenever the concentric circles are aligned to reveal the text quoted by Hannah Gadsby to explain how creativity and mental health are romanticized to a harmful degree, the photograph behind it will remain distorted.

People who experience dissociation often fear the "mask" slipping in public spaces, because dissociation can happen at inconvenient times, and appearing mentally ill is still heavily stigmatized. During an interview the idea of having to sometimes work as your own "copilot" during an episode felt especially significant.

Aspects of experience and scientific diagnosis that do not fit cleanly together. Accessibility is an ongoing problem, and self diagnosis is still a difficult topic to navigate. Clinical study and lived experiences are not given enough nuance. Dada collage techniques are used to overlay the DSM onto a portrait.

A photocopier was used to distort the imagery, and then an interview was conducted on the passage of time while in a dissociative state. Time can feel as though it passes by instantaneously, or as though it is dragging on forever.