http://www.ifitshipitshere.com/typographic-illusions-drawn-by-hand/
Typographer who experiments with perception, optical illusions and distortions of lettering. This image of his containing dysmorphia I felt was an accurate representation of the condition through a more abstract aspect, looking at the word as opposed to the body and picking apart the connotations of this.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/body-dysmorphia-disorder-and
Liz Atkin in the above images uses a flat bed scanner to capture her compulsive skin peeling obsession manifested from BDD, using glue, milk, paper and anything around her she creates these haunting intimate photographs symbolic of her personal torment.
"I had to confront the illness head-on when I started a masters degree in dance when I was 29, and it was then that I realized I could use the illness and study it in terms of a movement pattern in and on my body. I had no idea that was going to turn this disorder around... it was life changing."
Leigh de Vries
BDD sufferer and artist Leigh de Vris sought no form of therapy for her condition but medicates herself through her art. In her video and audio installation piece Exposure- The Broken Reality Tunnel she wears a prosthetic around the streets of Manchester and records her journey.
"I wanted to create the monster I perceived myself to be and physically wear it in public to create some mending in my mind by having the actual experience," says Says de Vries. "When we have something in our mind, versus the physical, the version in your mind is way worse. Shaune and I worked through a mood board of what I thought I looked like. I imagined I looked like someone with Elephantitis, with huge growths coming out of my face and body. The closest we got was a huge tumor growing out of my face. I had the idea to work with secret cameras—I wanted to capture my own journey of isolation but also make a social commentary on how people react to people with deformities. We had these great secret cameras called pivot heads, on glasses that have full HD and motion, and I had a little button camera on my blouse so we had three camera points. It was possibly the scariest day of my life so far."
Justine Khamara
Khamara starts with a photo of a face or body part, and then takes a knife, or laser cutter to the photo, slicing, rearranging, and distorting the image into a sculpture that is often three-dimensional. This purely abstract way of picking apart the body makes you question what we're made of, this I felt really relates perhaps unintentionally to Dysmorphophobia as a once 'normal' face has been dismantled through perception and somewhat broken which could be metaphorical of the mental affect the condition has on it's sufferers.
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