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Medicine

$600Original canvas

“You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.”

— Sylvia Plath

Canvas with hand-generated gilding and embroidery. Imagery reflective of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Bipolar Disorder. Gold detailing follows the Circle of Fifths — a tonal architecture mirroring the diagnosis.

Bipolar Disorder · 18 × 24 in

UPS Ground. United States from $22, Canada from $38, Europe from $48. Works 24 inches or larger add $12. Calculated at checkout.