During out group discussion I also came across a sketch by artist Agnes Cecile and share it with the group along with my sketch of it. We all loved the art because it had different meanings to all of us and all had different interpretations of it. Personally the idea of the closed mouth and eyes of the middle head portrays quietness without having to physically silence someone, which to me is a great description of mental health, although no one is physically silencing someone with mental health, many people suffering feel as though they can’t speak out. The other heads could be seen as thoughts inside their head creating a storm of thoughts and feelings fighting to make their way out.
We all decided to create our own individual illustrations of our interpretations of this piece of art, we all have different styles and were interested in seeing what style would be most successful in conveying the feeling we wanted to show. taking influence from the art by Agnes Cecile who uses lots of dark tones, we decided on using mainly black and white with tints of blue and red which could possibly show more feelings and emotions, but we all decided the black and white nature would give the art works a slightly darker nature which is what we were going for, we didn’t want the illustrations to be light and happy, we wanted them to make the viewer think about what the message is. Mental health can be a very dark and scary world and certainly isn’t bright pretty colours and happy thoughts and to fit in with our manifesto we wanted our illustrations to be true representations of mental illnesses.
https://www.art.com/products/p43103112569-sa-i10143662/agnes-cecile-drawing-restraints.htm
Ben Jackson 