Migraine and Visual Arts
| Author: Klaus Podoll | 14. May 2007 |
| Edited by: Klaus Podoll |
Elizabeth Munroz
Artist's website
fatillusions, migraine, 2006. © 2006 fatillusions (see here)
"Oy Vey!
I have had a migraine ALL DAY!
Went for first appt for Physical Therapy. Took imitrex, but it only mildly detracted.
Can't seem to shake it!
GRRRR"
(fatillusions's LifeJournal, September 7, 2006)
"I have attached another digital art picture I created to represent the actual way the I feel when I have a migraine. I feel like parts of my head have giant screws pressing inward. My eye feels like it is going to explode with pain. And the side of my face feels like it is being pulled down.
I have a few other pictures representative of migraine, if you are interested in seeing them. I would be glad to send them to you to look at and consider for your site."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 10, 2007)
"All of the pictures I have created are digital art. They started out as photographs and I have altered them with a computer program to make them express my feelings."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 15, 2007)
Elizabeth Munroz, Aura, 2002. © 2002 Elizabeth Munroz
"This one represents that sense of not entirely being connected with the world, and the sense of déjà vu that I experience sometimes with my auras. This is one of the pleasant experiences I have with an aura. I will see things that are not there and have a sense of having psychic visions of ghostly apparitions. Sometimes it feels as though I can communicate telepathically when I am like this. During these times it is difficult to concentrate or focus my attention on tasks, and I am in a dreamy state. This can last for hours, or temporary episodes will occur throughout a day interfering with getting things done. But, I rather enjoy these as long as I don't have to bother to respond to others during these times. I do not have enough presence of mind to realize that a migraine may be on the way, and forget to take any medicine until it is too late."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 15, 2007)
Elizabeth Munroz, Burning pain, 2004. © 2004 Elizabeth Munroz
"This is the intense feeling of a burning poker pushed into my eye that is so overwhelming it can only be experienced to the point where nothing else exists but the pain."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 15, 2007)
Elizabeth Munroz, Curtain aura, 2006. © 2006 Elizabeth Munroz
"This is the closest facsimile I can produce to represent that curtain of shimmering light that occasionally takes over my vision. I have tried for years to draw this phenomena, paint it or render it with digitization. Sometimes it is directly related to a painful migraine almost immediately, sometimes it only presents itself without any migraine. Perhap this is because I rush to take my medicine now when I experience it. I had migraines for years before I ever had this type of aura. the first time it happened I thought my retina had become detached. One time it came upon me so quickly while shopping, I walked right into a display. I do not have full vision when I have this type of aura."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 15, 2007)
Elizabeth Munroz, Downer, 2003. © 2003 Elizabeth Munroz
"This migraine has lasted too many days. The intensity is gone, but I can only hide in the darkness. Still, this is not so bad, because I can feel closer to being human. The pain has moved into the whole side of my face and somewhat into the other side. Part of my face feels cold as though a chill wind could blow through it. I feel sad, and relieved it is over."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 15, 2007)
Elizabeth Munroz, Green around gills, 2005. © 2005 Elizabeth Munroz
"There's the headache already in progress. Light is unbearable and feels like everything is a sickening haze of desert sunset all around me, making my mind feel like fog. I feel like my head is shrinking into a small hard ball due to the pressure. I am feeling very nauseated and view myself as a unstable as everything seems to be moving in waves."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, May 15, 2007)
Elizabeth Munroz, Pressure fire, undated. © Elizabeth Munroz
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