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Ella Scheuerell
WHO CREATED THESE BEINGS WITH EYES THAT LOOK AT EACH OTHER?

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Ella Scheuerell is a storyteller and cartoonist who creates with the mission of destigmatizing the conversation around mental health. Through emotive dialogue and poetic narratives, her stories tenderly explore the sometimes-uncomfortable truths beneath the surface of the lives of people diagnosed with mental health disorders, including her own experience with anxiety and depression. 

Despite the sometimes difficult or painful topics of exploration, Ella finds a way to maintain a vibrant levity and stability throughout her stories. Her artistic process visually symbolizes this balance: the use of raw colored pencil marks indicate that every mark on the page is an important contribution in the journey of one’s own becoming, bright watercolors provide comfort and light, and black ink lines ground each page in contrast. Moments of collage and mixed media encourage viewers to celebrate individuality and imperfection.

For her thesis, a graphic memoir in progress titled Who Created These Beings, Ella focuses on themes of family mental health, trauma, and resilience. In this true story, readers follow Ella through the pandemic and the pain of tragically losing her mentally ill uncle Chris to suicide. As she grieves in the midst of isolation, Ella finds herself facing her own existential questions about life and purpose, all the while drawing and writing as a mechanism of survival. The heaviness begins to lighten when Ella finds an enormous pile of hand-drawn, unpublished, shaky-lined cartoons that Chris left behind under his bed in a plastic bag, serving as a window to his sensitive and quirky soul. The pebbles and rocks that previously tripped Ella up in her mid-twenties begin to form a distinct and safe path as she traverses toward the new chapter of her thirties, guided by the invisible hand of Chris in every drawing and challenge she faces in finding love for herself. 

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