Ville Kansanen

Ville Kansanen

Medic

Jennifer Hudson- Medic

This work is really interesting to me, and deals with a lot of the themes I am currently exploring, check it out, its pretty cool.

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Hypochondria

Hypochondria is a belief that physical symptoms are signs of a serious illness, even when there is no medical evidence to support the presence of an illness.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors

People with hypochondria are overly focused on their physical health. They have an unrealistic fear of having a serious disease. This disorder occurs equally in men and women.

The way people with hypochondria think about their physical symptoms can make them more likely to have this condition. As they focus on and worry about physical sensations, a cycle of symptoms and worry begins, which can be difficult to stop.

It is important to realize that people with hypochondria do not purposely create these symptoms (malingering). They are unable to control the symptoms.

People who have a history of physical or sexual abuse are more likely to have this disorder. However, this does not mean that every person with a hypochondria disorder has a history of abuse.

Symptoms

People with hypochondria are unable to control their fears and worries. They often believe any symptom or sensation is a sign of a serious illness.

They seek out reassurance from family, friends, or health care providers on a regular basis. They feel better for a short time at most, and then begin to worry about the same symptoms, or about new symptoms.

Symptoms may shift and change, and are often vague. People with hypochondria often examine their own body.

Those who are affected may recognize that their fear of having a serious disease is unreasonable or unfounded.

"You have control of your life ... up until you're admitted to a hospital."

Nosocomephobia

Nosocomephobia is defined as the excessive fear of hospitals.^[1][2][3] Marc Siegel a doctor and associate professor at the New York University Medical Center says, "It's perfectly understandable why many people feel the way they do about a hospital stay," and continues, "You have control of your life ... up until you're admitted to a hospital."^[4] U.S. President Richard Nixon was known to have a fear of hospitals after refusing to get a treatment for a blood clot in 1974 saying, "if I go into the hospital, I'll never come out alive.".^[5][6]

Trypanophobia

Research for a new project:

Trypanophobia is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, belonephobia, or enetophobia, names that are technically incorrect because they simply denote a “fear of pins/needles” and do not refer to the medical aspect of trypanophobia.

Trypanophobia is a term that is rarely used among medical professionals. In the United States National Library of Medicine database of medical journal articles, the term "trypanophobia" cannot be found, although the database contains several journal articles referencing needle phobia.^[1] The name that is in common usage is simply needle phobia.

According to Dr. James G. Hamilton, author of the pioneering paper on needle phobia, it is likely that the form of needle phobia that is genetic has some basis in evolution, given that thousands of years ago humans who meticulously avoided stab wounds and other incidences of pierced flesh would have a greater chance of survival.^[2]

The discussion of the evolutionary basis of needle phobia in Dr. Hamilton's review article concerns the vasovagal type of needle phobia, which is a sub-type of blood-injection-injury phobia. This type of needle phobia is uniquely characterized by a two phase vasovagal response.^[3] First, there is a brief acceleration of heart rate and blood pressure. This is followed by a rapid plunge in both heart rate and blood pressure, sometimes leading to unconsciousness.^[2][3] The loss of consciousness is sometimes accompanied by convulsions and numerous rapid changes in the levels of many different hormones.^[2][4]

Other medical journal articles have discussed additional aspects of this possible link between vasovagal syncope and evolutionary fitness in blood-injection-injury phobias.[

Matthew Barney- Cremaster

This is a still from one of Matthew Barney's films that I saw while at the Moma in NY. I don't have much to say about it except everything from the content to color palette is perfect. Displayed, the shot was huge and it had an overwhelming effect on me as a viewer that is serving as a major influence for me right now.

Things that I care about

I wont elaborate too much on these now, but I will get the list going:

Rationality

Independence

Dedication

Integrity

The ability to laugh at ones self

The Earth

Science

Thought Process

Mania

Fantasy

Reality

The Absurd

The Surreal

Fear

The Truth

Insanity

Sanity

Lists

Disorder

Ladies and Gentlemen

This is a good friend of mines music. While I don't write music and he doesn't take photos, we have always been big supporters of each other's art, and his new album is more inspiring than ever, especially for the work I am doing now. Also, he's usually kind enough to use my photos as his cover art.

Check it out:

Ladies and Gentlemen

Confidence Trick

A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam,scheme, swindle or bamboozle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. The victim is known as the mark, the trickster is called a confidence man, con man, confidence trickster, grifter, orcon artist, and any accomplices are known as plants. Confidence men or women exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as greed, both dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility,naïveté, and the thought of trying to get something of value for nothing or for something far less valuable.

This is just a definition but it relates to something someone at the writing center said to me about my work making me a "visual con artist." This idea had prompted me to look into some ideas about deception and the concept of truth in general. This also connects with some earlier ideas I've worked with involving relativity.

Unidentified Notes

I wrote this in my notebook and don't remember where I got it from:

"They come for the shock value (freak show) but they stay because there's more to it than they expected."

I think this applies to my work a lot. I think a lot of what I make has an initial shock value but thats not exactly why I make it. I like people to be initially interested maybe for that reason, but then be surprised that the idea behind the piece is actually well thought out and more than existed at first look. This causes me to over think a lot of my work but I think I am generally happy with the meticulous way I do my work.

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

I really like this image, especially in regards to the last post I made about disorder and chaos. The idea that disorder is a force that occurs, that must be worked against. This photograph starts to touch on some of those ideas, something I am probably going to try to work with in the future.

Taking notes from my Bio textbook

"Disorder spreads through the universe and life alone battles against it"

Entropy: a measurement of randomness and disorder in a system (entropy always increases, a tendency that can be overcome by adding E)

*Disorder and chaos exist and thrive only when effort is put into reversing this trend can a change be made.