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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Have you expressed the significance of ME/CFS in your life in art? I'd love to see it! Find the link in the bio to participate. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs

Quote: "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance" - Aristotle

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is a submission by Sandra Gruescu from @the_me_artclub on Instagram. The written statements on the eggshells are tweets from people who suffer from severe ME/CFS about the reality of their life. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #meawareness #millionsmissing #mecfs

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is a selfportrait by Sarah Johnson. She's trying to tunnel out from under a glass dome. You can find more on the exhibit at www.thisiscfs.art #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs

Painting of a woman in a wheelchair with a shovel. She is covered by a glass dome.

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This work was submitted by Jackie. It's two artworks, done about 2 years apart speaking to her experience of LC/CFS. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Art is an excellent way to express our experience with ME/CFS and for the world to gain some understanding of this invisible disease. Want to share your work? Follow the link in the bio. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #mecfsawareness #mecfs

"Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world" - Dana Gioia

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is David Stoner's submission to the exhibit: "My painting illustrates the infection traveling through my body at the cellular level and it’s aftermath, becoming a shadow of my former self" #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #mecfsawareness #mecfs

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

What would art made with a brush dipped in your soul look like? Check out the art from makers around the world with ME/CFS at the online exhibit. Link in bio. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs #cfsme

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This artwork titled "The Slowness of Dying" is Barbara's image of her current conception of death, born out of her ME/CFS experience. Death is not on/off; death is like the leaf curling away from a branch. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #meawareness #mecfsawareness #mecfs #cfsme

A digital collage featuring a portrait of a woman with glasses looking serious. There are brown leaves overlaying her face.

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The This IS CFS Art exhibit attempts to transmit the experience of ME/CFS to people who do not have the condition. Is it working? #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs #cfsme

"Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others." - Leo Tolstoy

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is Lucie Wilson's submission to the exhibit. It is a visual interpretation of how she felt during a recent bout of Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM). #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs #cfsme

A portrait of a face digitally distorted.

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you'd like to share your art that speaks about your experience with ME/CFS or LC, follow the link in the bio. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyill #meawareness #spoonie #millionsmissing #mecfsawareness #mecfs #cfsme

"I could say things with color and shape that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for..." - Margaret Naumberg

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Words are hard and often feel inadequate. Through creative expression it's sometimes easier to convey what we are feeling. If you'd like to share your art with This Is CFS Art, please follow the link in the bio. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #chronicfatigueawareness #chronicallyillartist #mecfs #cfsme

"Art speaks where words are unable to explain" - Pam Holland

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This is CFS art @thisiscfsart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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