The Bipolar Project

Mental illness is something that touches most of our lives in one way or another. Still, there is a stigma surrounding it and a definite taboo. One of those reasons is, that if you don’t know mental illness yourself, it is hard to familiarize yourself with it. It is something you can’t see – something invisible.

With this project I have tried to visualize mental illness. In this case I chose bipolar disorder because of its polarized extremes. I realize that this disease is much more complicated, but I have chosen to simplify it and work with the extremes to get a more powerful point across.