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Feingold Gallery: Crazy Community

Feingold Gallery:
Crazy Community

 

 

The design of this gallery is aimed at encouraging conversation involving both immediate and reflective thought, individual and collective. Rather than starting by reading comments of others, please first put your own immediate thoughts in the on-line forum below. This way, we'll all be able to see how much similarity and difference there is in our initial reactions and interpretations of the images. Then go back to see what others have said about this image and add whatever new thoughts you have as a result of that. More general thoughts about the collection of images and/or this exhibit as a whole are welcome in the on-line forum on the exhibit home page.

 


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Wow!This picture speaks

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 7:28am.

Wow!This picture speaks directly to my soul. The poem. The pictures. Leave me in awe. I suffer from bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder and have been declared "disabled". I have not yet figured out why this is so moving but it instantly reached in a way that words or pictures alone could never be able.

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Crazy community comment

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:35am.
Maybe we're all "crazy" and could all become a community, if we all saw each other, each in our own way, and shared that, and used it to create new ways of being.
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There’s comfort found in

Submitted by LauraC on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 4:16pm.
There’s comfort found in finding people who have had similar experiences. Community helps create meaning and define oneself.
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ok, i burst into tears with

Submitted by merry2e on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 7:22pm.
ok, i burst into tears with this one. i think i need to take a break before i look at anymore. this picture is very powerful for me, as i grew up visiting my mother who lived in psychiatric hospitals and it brought me right to....walking into the hospital when I was eight....feeling frightened yet in awe.
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Society turning a blind eye

Submitted by Riki on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 9:22pm.
Society turning a blind eye to the "mentally ill", but at least they have each other.
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"Its a very thin wall that

Submitted by ysilverman on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 8:55am.
"Its a very thin wall that divides us." Not only the artist and the subjects, but the collective us. What is the space between the community to which he refers and the community to which each human belongs?
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A sense of comfort in shared

Submitted by Sophie F on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 9:17pm.
A sense of comfort in shared experience and alienation from self and others. We all walk a fine line and are, perhaps, more connected than we know/admit.
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Community

Submitted by kmanning on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 8:01am.
An understanding and an acceptance of the self, and a realization that there are others out there with whom community is possible. However, at the same time an underlying sense of dissatistfication,  a sense that the author knows he is being judged by the "normal" community, and that somehow his "disabled" community is not quite enough...
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I wonder if the last

Submitted by akerle on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:25am.
I wonder if the last statement in this poem is ultimately how society wants to 'see' the mentally ill- a cure is a kind of socail blindness- we do not want these people upsetting a certain kind of harmony and by becoming invisible and blending in then they are automatically cured. We do not appreciate the delicate balancing act that is necessary in order for them to remain satisfactorily invisible.
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Multiple selves

Submitted by mstokes on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:25am.
in the community of self--but walls divide this community, blindfolds obscure, both within and without.   
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I like to last stanza of the

Submitted by ryan g on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:28pm.
I like to last stanza of the poem the most.  Reminds us that people are people... no matter what.
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I'm glad she is able to draw

Submitted by Ljones on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 2:54pm.
I'm glad she is able to draw comfort from the fact that she is not alone.
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A thin wall between being

Submitted by MartinBayer on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 3:07pm.
A thin wall between being crazy but functional and just plain crazy... I think that is probably true in most cases. 
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