Although my art images have a specific purpose and meaning for me—coming to grips with my illness, understanding my mixed feelings, new, uncertain identity, and negative feelings originating from the stigma of bipolar disorder, they began to generate interest in others who viewed them.

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I discovered there is a universal concept of the Impaired Self that connects all of us in ways that can yield compassion and empathy, tolerance and understanding, and move us to consider our assistance as opposed to neglect, our concern as opposed to our apathy and our sense of responsibility toward each other as opposed to our emotional detachment and indifference.