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Another walking piece - with loud breathing sound effect added.

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CHRISTIAN SAMPSON

Twenty one year old photographer who looks at mental illness to create his shots.

"Just because it can't be seen, it doesn't mean damage can't be done. That's why the series is so dark, because I want to make the point that people suffer from this."

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Afraid of People

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What is anxiety?

Anxiety is a normal, if unpleasant, part of life, and it can affect us all in different ways and at different times. Whereas stress is something that will come and go as the external factor causing it (be it a work, relationship or money problems, etc.) comes and goes, anxiety is something that can persist whether or not the cause is clear to the sufferer.

Anxiety can make a person imagine that things in their life are worse than they really are, and prevent them from confronting their fears. Often they will think they are going mad, or that some psychological imbalance is at the heart of their woes. What is important is the recognition that anxiety is normal and exists due to a set of bodily functions that have existed in us from our cave-man days.

Some of the most common physical symptoms of anxiety are:

Increased heart rate

Increased muscle tension

“Jelly legs”

Tingling in the hands and feet

Hyperventilation (over breathing)

Dizziness

Difficulty in breathing

Wanting to use the toilet more often

Feeling sick

Tight band across the chest area

Tension headaches

Hot flushes

Increased perspiration

Dry mouth

Shaking

Choking sensations

Palpitations

Some of the most common psychological symptoms (the thoughts or altered perceptions we have) of anxiety are:

Thinking that you may lose control and/or go “mad”

Thinking that you might die

Thinking that you may have a heart attack/be sick/faint/have a brain tumour

Feeling that people are looking at you and observing your anxiety

Feeling as though things are speeding up/slowing down

Feeling detached from your environment and the people in it

Feeling like wanting to run away/escape from the situation

Feeling on edge and alert to everything around you

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Anxiety Diary

Over the course of the next few weeks I’m going to take a small diary (unruled) with me everywhere I go and document my thoughts and feelings through drawing or writing to express what makes me feel anxious or alienated. 

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Messing around using videos I took walking around myself - sped up and added in the sound of a rapid heartbeat. Also added an effect that makes the video wavy which I felt captured how shaky I can get when walking. Walking alone makes me nervous and I wanted to convey this through a video. 

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LOUISE BOURGEOIS

“I Give Everything Away” , Oct 2013 - Feb 2014

220 drawings and writings made between November 1994 and June 1995 and created in the suspended state between sleeping and waking.

“This is her waking dream life spilling out, the agony of insomnia crystallizing into images, the terrible thoughts that wont go away” 

These drawings were repetitive and many had rhythmic elements that were done in red or blue ink/pencil. 

In the catalogue for “insomnia drawings” Marie-Laure Bernadac quotes Ms. Bourgeois’s saying that her abstract drawings of spirals, mazes, loops, dots, waves, coils and concentric designs “comes from a deep need to achieve peace, rest and sleep”. These drawings relate to unconscious memories, in comparison - the figurative drawings of houses, skyscrapers, maps, plants and trees are meant to erase negative memories and says they are “problems to be solved”.

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PLACE - Tactica Dean and Jeremy Millar

“The most interesting as well as the most difficult thing about place is that you can never really put your finger on it; it’s so amorphous. We all think we understand it or can identify it but we can’t really, except perhaps emotionally” 

Places can be difficult to locate. One might think that one can spot it somewhere, some way off in the distance, perhaps, and yet as one approaches it seems to disappear, only to reconfigure at some farther point, or back from whence one came. Place itself can seem a confusing place in which to find oneself, an uncertain place to explore, even with someone to guide us. 

The question “what is place?” presents many difficulties. An examination of all the relevant facts seem to lead to different conclusions. Moreover, we have inherited nothing from previous thinkers, whether in the way of a statement of difficulties or a solution.

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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings – they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain. I have never seen one fly, but sometimes they perch on the hand. Mist is when the sky is tired of flight and rests its soft machine on ground: then the world is dim and bookish like engravings under tissue paper. Rain is when the earth is television. It has the property of making colours darker. Model T is a room with the lock inside – a key is turned to free the world for movement, so quick there is a film to watch for anything missed. But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps, that snores when you pick it up. If the ghost cries, they carry it to their lips and soothe it to sleep with sounds. And yet, they wake it up deliberately, by tickling with a finger. Only the young are allowed to suffer openly. Adults go to a punishment room with water but nothing to eat. They lock the door and suffer the noises alone. No one is exempt and everyone’s pain has a different smell. At night, when all the colours die, they hide in pairs and read about themselves – in colour, with their eyelids shut.

Craig Raine

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ARTHUR LIPSETT - 21-87 (1964)

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ANTHONY GORMLEY: Being Human

“I’m simply using my own existence and my own body as the model, the subject, the tool and the instrument but I’m not making pictures of it. My work is about what it means to inhabit a human life. When we close our eyes we are in a space that has no edges, that has no dimension, that is immeasurable and is equivalent to the deep space of the cosmos”

Documentary looking at the way Gormley works using his own body.

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“by walking we escape the idea of itself of identity, the desire to be someone, to have a name and a history… The freedom experienced when walking is about not being anyone because the body that walks has no history; it just has an eternal current of life”

Fredereic Gros in conversation with Richard Wentwort

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SUSAN STOCKWELL - “Taking a line for a walk” 2003

FRANCIS ALYS - “The Green Line” 2004

“Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already - with the speed of culture of our time - a kind of resistance... a very immediate method of unfolding stories”

SIMON FAITHFULL -  “0º00 Navigation” 2009