This is CFS art

Quote: "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance" - Aristotle

Have you expressed the significance of ME/CFS in your life in art? I'd love to see it! Find the link in the bio to participate.

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Yep, had a brain fart.

This is a submission by Sandra Gruescu from @the_me_artclub on Instagram. The written statements on the eggshells are tweets from people who suffer from severe ME/CFS about the reality of their life.

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"Art is a wound turned into light." - Georges Braque

E/CFS comes with so much loss, so many wounds. To be able to turn it into art is a small blessing!

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Photo of woman with blond hair flying through the frame. Her face is partially obscured.

This work titled "She Doesn’t Look Ill" was submitted by Emma Black.

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Do you think they hate you back. That makes me so sad, to think you are all just hating on each other. (Ignore me, still dopey from my nap. I have these days too.)

"Art can permeate the deepest parts of us, where no words exist." - Eileen Miller

And that is why art is so helpful when there's suffering.

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Painting of a woman in a wheelchair with a shovel. She is covered by a glass dome.

This is a selfportrait by Sarah Johnson. She's trying to tunnel out from under a glass dome.

You can find more on the exhibit at www.thisiscfs.art

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Is there more we can do? I'm worried a petition isn't going to do much. Im so upset about this!

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." - Pablo Picasso

For people with ME/CFS expressing how we experience our life is so important. Art is one way to do that.

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This work was submitted by Jackie.

It's two artworks, done about 2 years apart speaking to her experience of LC/CFS.

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When I bought the www.thisiscfs.art website I considered thisisme.art but it doesn't quite work. I also hate CFS. Internet problems!

"Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world" - Dana Gioia

Art is an excellent way to express our experience with ME/CFS and for the world to gain some understanding of this invisible disease.

Want to share your work? Follow the link in the bio.

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This is David Stoner's submission to the exhibit: "My painting illustrates the infection traveling through my body at the cellular level and it’s aftermath, becoming a shadow of my former self"

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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher

What would art made with a brush dipped in your soul look like?

Check out the art from makers around the world with ME/CFS at the online exhibit. Link in bio.

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A digital collage featuring a portrait of a woman with glasses looking serious. There are brown leaves overlaying her face.

This artwork titled "The Slowness of Dying" is Barbara's image of her current conception of death, born out of her ME/CFS experience. Death is not on/off; death is like the leaf curling away from a branch.

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"Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others." - Leo Tolstoy

The This IS CFS Art exhibit attempts to transmit the experience of ME/CFS to people who do not have the condition.

Is it working?

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A portrait of a face digitally distorted.

This is Lucie Wilson's submission to the exhibit. It is a visual interpretation of how she felt during a recent bout of Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM).

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"I could say things with color and shape that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for..." - Margaret Naumberg

If you'd like to share your art that speaks about your experience with ME/CFS or LC, follow the link in the bio.

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"Art speaks where words are unable to explain" - Pam Holland

Words are hard and often feel inadequate. Through creative expression it's sometimes easier to convey what we are feeling.
If you'd like to share your art with This Is CFS Art, please follow the link in the bio.

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Now I have to recover from relating SO hard to this.

When I last looked it was at 666. As much as that's funny, I want it to go much, much higher.

We Can Make an Impact. ME Association Chair Neil Riley must step down

It's OK to make a mistake. But then you must take responsibility to acknowledge wrongdoing and make genuine efforts to repair the relationship. This has not happened. chng.it/jSXznmWbpr

Blue ink drawing of a woman with arms bound behind her back, unable to free herself.

This ink drawing was submitted by Edith Rosen and speaks to the isolating, debilitating, entrapment of ME/CFS.

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