Featured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Jonathan Yungkans! We are featuring two new poems: Leviathan Morning, which speaks of the struggle of a whale in the ocean, recalling a brother …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Friesen
“What’s wrong with me? I lose my footing, in here.” He touched his head. “When a neuro-typical looses their footing, they yell or escape to the TV, or maybe the …
40 days of poetry: Music Swims Back to Me: Anne Sexton
40 days of poetry: Day 13. Today I’m reading Music Swims Back to Me, by Anne Sexton, about her experience being institutionalized for mental illness. Simultaneously clear and murky, it …
Quote for Today: Nathan Filer
Some madness doesn’t act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it’ll simply sit in the corner without a …
A New Image of Community: Lars and the Real Girl
Critics often praise pessimism over optimism. What if portraying the unconventional and exceptional helps create a kinder world? Video via MOVIECLIPS Classic Trailers on YouTube. Lars Lindstrom is twenty-seven years old, withdrawn and incommunicative. He’s …
Hallucinations of Polka Dots: The Work of Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is a visionary who inspired and contributed to the emerging avant-garde movements of pop art and minimalism in the 1950s and 60s and continues to produce unusual and …
Wondrous and Disturbed: In the Realms of the Unreal
We read everyday of outsiders who become violent. Here is the story of an outsider who found another way: art. When Henry Darger passed away in 1973 at the age …
Playful Depths: I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK
Are humor and honesty effective in dealing with death and mental illness? Are we held back by propriety and clichés? When the white coats take away Young-Goon’s grandmother, who believes …
Ridicule is Nothing to Be Scared of: Adam Ant, Hero in the War Against Mental Illness
Mental illness is misunderstood and hidden. What would happen if we embraced ourselves and one another for who we are? Adam Ant, born Stuart Goddard in Marylebone, England, burst on …