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Feingold Gallery: It's Genetic

Feingold Gallery:
It's Genetic

 

 

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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It's genetic comment

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 9:32am.

(posted for a friend)

The enemy.


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It's genetic comment

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:34am.
Yes, scarey/threatening. Yes, also helpful to know that genes are involved, that one is not/should not expect to be entirely in control of oneself, that one can get help from others.
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Being defined by labels,

Submitted by LauraC on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 4:15pm.
Being defined by labels, negative ones. Not in control of defining oneself.
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the darkness that can

Submitted by merry2e on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 7:18pm.
the darkness that can overpower one's life without warning. powerful but not all encompassing as it wants to be.
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The inner demons. Bipolar

Submitted by Riki on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 9:14pm.
The inner demons. Bipolar disorder visually stands out to me.
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The beast we cannot escape,

Submitted by ysilverman on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 8:53am.
The beast we cannot escape, nor protect others from, no matter how we wish or try.
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The self as a demon,

Submitted by Sophie F on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 9:14pm.
The self as a demon, demonizing others and inescapable as oneself is, too, demonized. "It's genetic," is simultaneously self-mocking, an explanation to the world at large and, perhaps, a source of comfort.
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burning

Submitted by kmanning on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 7:50am.
He feels these mental illnesses burning out from him as uncontrollable forces he has been cursed with by genetics.
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Seems bitterly unsure of the

Submitted by akerle on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:21am.
Seems bitterly unsure of the notion that an all encompassing and terrifying experience can be easily 'explained away' under the simple title of genetics.
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Mental disorders

Submitted by mstokes on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:23am.
caused by something other in the soul/brain/consciousness.  
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This picture makes me aware

Submitted by ryan g on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:26pm.
This picture makes me aware of the social stigma surrounding mental illness.  You are "bad" if you have one...
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The devil is inside of you,

Submitted by Ljones on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 2:50pm.
The devil is inside of you, and he's coming out... everyone can see it.
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I think this image does a

Submitted by MartinBayer on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 3:05pm.
I think this image does a good job of personifying the disease as an outside attacker of the afflicted person. 
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