# N O B L A N K B R A I N S
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Shayla Bond is an illustrator and artist from Kentville,
Nova Scotia. She graduated from Nova Scotia College
of Art & Design in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts,
majoring in Fashion and Textiles. She is best known for
her vibrant digital illustrations which feature detailed
line-art and offset pops of colour. Shayla works
digitally but finds meditation and escape in painting
exact shape compositions in traditional mediums.
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By Shayla Bond
Artist Statement
The artist suffers from generalized anxiety and ADD. Composing exact shapes
in traditional mediums is the only time she feels she's not ruminating; it forces
her to focus strictly on the task at hand. This piece compares the meditative
practice Shayla uses to calm her mind while contrastingly representing
the slow fade into the complicated mind of an Alzheimer's patient. Dually,
it parallels the proven benefits of art therapy for the artist and those with
Alzheimer's and dementia.
