For my Drawing final at my first semester at RISD I made a series of drawings about a Traumatic Brain Injury I got in November of 2014 and other ways Traumatic Brain Injuries have affected my life.
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The first panel is about my brother, my mother had a lot of trouble during pregnancy and my brother had to be born 3 months premature and causing a Traumatic Brain injury, giving him many developmental disabilities.
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This panel shows one of the feelings I constantly got after my own Traumatic Brain Injury showing how it almost felt as though your head was hollow giving an uneasy feeling as though nothing around me is real.
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After head injury many people will feel as though reality is slipping away or that they have lost their minds, this panel shows some of the lost feelings I experienced.
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This panel shows how my brain feels on a daily basis since the injury, It feels as though these patterns are moving and shifting through my brain at all times.
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Overview of full project