volume II

art for disorders

diagnosis · obsession · collapse

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a room of diagnosis, obsession, chemical evidence, altered witness, and private collapse.

the work does not explain the condition. it preserves the symptoms.

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pages 096–097

Richard Gerstl’s laughing self-portrait: a man with dark hair and an open smile against a textured brown background.
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Richard Gerstl, Self-Portrait, Laughing (1908). Reproduction: Belvedere, Wien, via Wikimedia Commons.

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only write when im manic im good till i panic

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