Glimpses of Schizophrenia Artist Karen Sorenson, who manages her schizophrenia with medication, painted “Electricity Makes You Float” shortly after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. The painting, she says, grew out of a “psychotic fantasy. . . I thought that I could shoot rays of energy from the palms of my hands and blow up buildings. Somehow I identified with murderers. Making this picture helped free me of the obsessiveness of the idea . . . [by] putting it out there into the brilliance of daylight” (2011).
Courtesy Karen Sorensen