Most of the art in The Art Gallery had its beginnings in The Multiple Journals. | |
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I began writing these journals in 1994 when I was flooded by memories of childhood abuse. |
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After a lifetime of mental hospitals, suicide attempts, despair and confusion, I was diagnosed with MPD/DID (multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder). |
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I have come to recognize the 44 separate personalities residing within my one very tired, and crowded body. |
This is my art and my life on these pages. | |
I am Survivor... and Artist. | |
I know who I am-- all of us. I know the truth. | |
My ability to dissociate from the abuse as a child is the only reason I am alive. | |
I consider MPD to be a blessing, and a miracle. (Can you understand this?) | |
In the Multiple Journals the personalities were encouraged to write and draw. | |
I looked inside for answers. I asked quesitons. I became the expert on me. | |
It was there that we found healing. | |
Some of the drawings in my Multiple Journals was later translated into the art you see here, (see more drawings and journal writings in my book, Looking Inside: Life Lessons from a Multiple Personaltiy) | |
Some of my earlier art is included so that you can see what was there all along, what was overlooked and dismissed. Multiplicity. | |
It is the wonder of the Child that gives us hope, that brings us joy, that insists that we "Choose Life." |
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Copyright 1998 Judy Castelli