Featured Artist: Alvason « chronic artists

Alvason is a photographer with CFS.

I have had chronic fatigue for ten years now. Someone asked me recently how I deal with a chronic illness. I replied that I have an optimistic outlook and I believe things will get better for me and one day I will be if not cured, at least fitter than I am now and the illness will be more manageable. source

Photo by Alvason

I still love fiddling with optical stiff – cameras especially, I have some old ones, the film kind, 20 years old and more where you fiddle with knobs and buttons and focus – focus! – back to the telescope, yay! – and everything is manual. The joy is in the process. My wife likes to ask me if the landscape has stopped moving yet (not the same as “did the earth move for you?”), as I compose the shot and look at aperture, speed etc. source

Photo by Alvason

Alvason is one of the artists who features in the Creative For A Second book.

I’m proud to have contributed to an exciting project called Creative For A Second – bringing together the artistic work of some fellow-sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME/CFIDS/Fibromyalgia). source

He also draws from time to time.