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This is CFS art
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An online exhibit of creative expressions by people suffering from ME/CFS. Visit the exhibit at www.thisiscfs.art.
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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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Quote: "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance" - Aristotle
April 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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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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March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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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"Art is a wound turned into light." - Georges Braque
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This work titled "She Doesn’t Look Ill" was submitted by Emma Black.

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Photo of woman with blond hair flying through the frame. Her face is partially obscured.
February 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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And that is why art is so helpful when there's suffering.

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"Art can permeate the deepest parts of us, where no words exist." - Eileen Miller
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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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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Painting of a woman in a wheelchair with a shovel. She is covered by a glass dome.
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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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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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." - Pablo Picasso
January 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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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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January 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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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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"Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world" - Dana Gioia
January 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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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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January 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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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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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher
January 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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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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A digital collage featuring a portrait of a woman with glasses looking serious. There are brown leaves overlaying her face.
December 22, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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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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"Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others." - Leo Tolstoy
December 16, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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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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A portrait of a face digitally distorted.
December 12, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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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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#chronicallyill
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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
December 9, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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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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"Art speaks where words are unable to explain" - Pam Holland
December 6, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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This ink drawing was submitted by Edith Rosen and speaks to the isolating, debilitating, entrapment of ME/CFS.

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Blue ink drawing of a woman with arms bound behind her back, unable to free herself.
December 4, 2024 at 9:10 PM