If you are in town I would love to see you there! Cool live music, free beverages and of course awesome art work! Hope you can make it! (Below is what I wrote for the show's theme).
There is a strange disconnect between mental illness and normalcy. As
if there is a stark, dividing line between the two. Black and white,
completely separate. Us and Them. I believe this arbitrary
classification – ill, healthy, recovering etc. is very similar to how we
catalog our colors – blue, red, green, etc. The visible color spectrum
reflects the human experience in the sense that colors cannot be
contained as single, definable points. The spectrum is actually one band
of ever shifting, ever transitioning hues, as are we; our lives and our
experiences are continuous and overlapping, yet discreet.
All persons exist in a world with other persons. We interact daily with a wide range of people and personalities. It is not possible to limit your experience to “normal.” We are but one piece in the cosmos. No one exists in a vacuum. So instead of pushing past others whose mental or physical health might not reflect exactly our own, we embrace.
We are made of many parts, parts to our personalities, our bodies, and as one part to the rest of the world.
This collection of drawings and paintings are both illustrative, narrative and use subtle humor, rainbows and faces to suggest that we are all connected to each other; as the human race and as a thinking, feeling people.
~Boz Schurr
Thanks for looking!
<3 Boz
