u/ParticularFan6616

I am thinking:
- relying on each other for body doubling
-being serotonin and dopamine partners (no drugs exchange but human presence)
-having safe space to share experiences
-encouraging each other in healthy ways

It is difficult for people without ADHD to understand and provide neutral care without judgement or getting frustrated. Having a safe circle would help us.

I’ve been thinking lately about how strange influence is in art.

Sometimes you consciously look at an artist and think, “I want to understand how they’re doing this.” And sometimes you look back at your own work years later and realise that someone has quietly been sitting in the background of your visual language all along.

For me, three artists who keep coming back into my work are Milt Kobayashi, Édouard Vuillard, and Isidre Nonell.
There’s something about the way they deal with figures, interiors, atmosphere, colour and that feeling of a moment being slightly removed from the viewer that I find myself returning to. I don't think I consciously try to paint like any of them, but their influence seems to have seeped into the way I look at space and people.

I’m curious about this with other artists here. Who are the artists whose work has quietly made its way into yours?
Could be someone from your own country, someone completely unexpected, or an artist you only realised had influenced you much later.

And if you feel like it, tell me what you think you’ve inherited from them :-a way of seeing, a colour relationship, composition, subject matter, mood, technique, whatever.

I’d genuinely love to discover who everyone has been carrying around in the back of their heads while making work.

I’ve been thinking lately about how strange influence is in art.

Sometimes you consciously look at an artist and think, “I want to understand how they’re doing this.” And sometimes you look back at your own work years later and realise that someone has quietly been sitting in the background of your visual language all along.

For me, three artists who keep coming back into my work are Milt Kobayashi, Édouard Vuillard, and Isidre Nonell.
There’s something about the way they deal with figures, interiors, atmosphere, colour and that feeling of a moment being slightly removed from the viewer that I find myself returning to. I don't think I consciously try to paint like any of them, but their influence seems to have seeped into the way I look at space and people.

I’m curious about this with other artists here. Who are the artists whose work has quietly made its way into yours?
Could be someone from your own country, someone completely unexpected, or an artist you only realised had influenced you much later.

And if you feel like it, tell me what you think you’ve inherited from them :-a way of seeing, a colour relationship, composition, subject matter, mood, technique, whatever.

I’d genuinely love to discover who everyone has been carrying around in the back of their heads while making work.

Are there any berlinale talents alumni here? I need to pick your brains on something.
If you would be so kind.

I am writing this because I don’t know what to do. I was binge watching Grey’s anatomy (don’t like it but need background noise all the time) and they started showing this resident with ADHD and it struck too close to home.

Oh wait, a bit of background, I live in a place where mental illnesses are tabooed. I have consistently tried to seek help but the therapists and psychiatrists are bloody expensive and they all prescribe me serotonin meds all the time and since I have changed them so many times they don’t believe I have ADHD immediately and I am stuck in a loop.

So, My brain is at that stage where I am almost addicted to constant stimulations. I can’t function even to brush my teeth somedays without background noise of this constant binge watching shows. I lie on my bed most of the days and don’t move at all. I read. I paint. I play chess and work in films. I have a vivacious life which I am slowly losing. These serotonin meds always make me even more drowsy and slow.

What should I do? Can someone please share their psychiatrist stories or some methods to get out of this vicious cycle of no money, no psychiatrist fighting society every step of the way?

How has your experience been? I am qualified for it but should I do it? People keep telling me that it is a good opportunity for networking. My seniors tell me that it is very beneficial as they themselves were there. I somehow feel that production designers might not have much benefits, I don’t know.