Artist Statement
In this ongoing collection of self-portraits through his own skin or others, Joey Solomon looks to acknowledge internal dissonance and copes by using photography to grasp what the symptoms of his ADHD, PTSD, anxiety and depressive disorders may look like in the various stages of his daily triumphs and emotional defeats. Interestingly, Solomon feels as though he is able to detail his experience as a human living with multiple dueling mental illnesses far better through his work, photographing externally and finding images of himself within the external. If nothing else, Solomon’s work serves to affirm a learning process in our tender and dysfunctional species.
