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The project is for anyone that is curious about or who has experienced visions or moments of breaks with reality or a moment in which he or she feels that God or a higher power may have been active in his or her lives. The Altar to Our Lady of the Shining Silver Sun is also for anyone who has ever experienced the dissonance of mental illness in his or her life, either through themselves, a family member or someone close to them (Recent statistics show that one in four adults will experience a mental disorder in any given year and that one in five families will be affected by mental illness (National Institute of Mental Health)). The Altar to Our Lady of the Shining Silver Sun may also be of interest to those that are interested in the actual process of cognitive development–The process of “building a reality” (or schema as Piaget suggested). The mind of someone suffering a psychotic break has a lot in common with the same process in which a child may put together his or her life-view, his or her view of reality, with the difference being that upon sharing his or her own unique way of perceiving things, the child gives it up upon learning of this new “shared,” community, perception of reality.
photo by Bruno Kruse