All Sky, Mirror Ocean: A Healing Manifesto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772126778)

All Sky, Mirror Ocean is for everyone looking to understand the complex issues around mental illness and healing. Combining autobiography, research-creation, poetry, and creative philosophy, Brad Necyk uses art and words to uncover and tell new stories about trauma and recovery. Necyk weaves his own histories with bipolar affective disorder and childhood medical trauma with those of other people dealing with grief and loss: head and neck cancer patients in Edmonton, psychiatric inpatients in Toronto, and communities in Iqaluit stricken by suicide. Punctuated with art, these lived experiences intertwine with scholarship on arts-based research, neuroscience, collaboration, and psychedelic altered states to reveal the understanding and acceptance that comes from acknowledging our deep connections--to ideas and emotions, to our environments, to art, and to each other. Showing great compassion and wisdom, All Sky, Mirror Ocean is a model for research-creation and artistic fieldwork.

Author: Brad Necyk
ISBN-10: 1772126772
ISBN-13: 9781772126778
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2024
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.40w x 0.70d