On Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Not Forget the Jew, the Nazi, and the Mentally Ill
We Must Remember I’m either mentally ill or Jewish. I can’t sometimes tell the difference.”—Rosanne Barr Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, began at sundown on Wednesday night. A memorial day for those who died in the Shoah, which means catastrophe or utter destruction in Hebrew and “sacrifice by fire” in Greek, it awakens…
Read MoreHuman Canvas Comes To Life at Volition Gallery
The Process and Vision of Andy Golub’s Human Canvas March 10, 2018 We were told to arrive between 11:45am and noon so we could get an early start, which in artist-speak means the painting wouldn’t really begin until 1pm. Either way, this 9-person human canvas was sure to have us working for at least 6…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Violation of My Civil Liberties PART I: The Final Lockdown; I am a Jew. And I’ll prove it!
The FINAL Lockdown PART I You better watch out. You better not cry. Because I assure you, I am an expert in such affairs. They may lock you up and throw away the key, and you will have me to remember giving you a fair warning about it. We are living in ominous…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Violation of My Civil Liberties PART II: The Final Lockdown; I am a Jew. And I’ll prove it!
If you haven’t first read PART I, please click on the link below before continuing: The Ultimate Violation of My Civil Liberties PART I: The Final Lockdown Otherwise, continue reading: PART II During the end of the 19th century, there was an explosive growth of mental asylums in both America and Europe built with taxpayers…
Read MoreLucie Fink’s You Tube series: 5 Days of Art
Lucie Fink from Refinery29 asked me to paint her up for her latest You Tube video: 5 Days of Art, under her show 5 Days of Productivity. We got to shoot on a beautiful day this summer on top of the roof of her Chelsea apartment. Check out the video below–I’m Thursday!
Read MoreThe Somers Record: Somers’ Siciliano Creates Living, Breathing Art
Somers Body Painter Ready for International Competition By BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER August 3, 2016 at 12:04 PM SOMERS, N.Y. – Somers artist Jen Siciliano has an impressive body of work. For the past five years, the former English teacher has found a new career in face and body painting, earning national recognition along the…
Read MoreBehind the Scenes: Refinery 29 and Bodypainting Day 2016
Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to link up with the infamous NYC body painter Andy Golub to participate in his third annual NYC Bodypainting Day, a convergence of 100 fully nude models and 75 painters at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in Manhattan, which was held on July 9th. The whole purpose of the event…
Read MoreMy Story On Meds
The Psychiatric Sentence Yes, I’ve been laced on psychiatric medication for 22 years. After my failure of a trip to India in 1994, (where I suffered from acute dysentery and almost died, and subsequently had a near-death-experience on my plane trip home), I had a mental meltdown due to the trauma, and I landed in a…
Read MoreElimination of the Mentally Ill: the Genetic Undesirable
The Human Genome How could anyone who has not been on the receiving end of getting tagged and put into a category of the “mentally ill” for their personal thoughts and emotions, know the feeling of being singled out and ostracized as abnormal? Only we can truly understand the warped mindsets originating from long…
Read MorePsychiatric Labeling: A Modern Day Crime
We Are Not Behavior Alone In 1994, I was labeled with bipolar disorder. I always hated to divulge this juicy nugget of info to doctors or budding friends, and I never revealed it to employers. By sharing this label I was submitting to society’s stigma and thwarted conclusion of what everyone felt this “illness” actually…
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