Unraveling Life’s Threads Through Art and Words

Where Story and Image Become One

Emotive Fusion Art is the heartbeat of Poetic Bipolar Mind.
It’s the meeting point where written word and visual art merge—not as separate entities that simply sit side by side, but as two intertwined voices telling the same story.

Created through the collaboration of Kiana Jimenez (writer, poet, and founder of Poetic Bipolar Mind) and David White (illustrator and co-creative partner), Emotive Fusion Art transforms individual works into multi-sensory narratives.

In this space, a poem is never just a poem—and an illustration is never just an image.

Each piece is constructed so that language and imagery deepen, echo, and illuminate one another, creating an emotional experience that lingers.

  • White, Dave. Pieces. May 18, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.
  • White, Dave. Beach Dog. June 15, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.
  • White, Dave. Raging Sea. February 14, 2025, Dave White Illustrations.

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Our Mission

At Poetic Bipolar Mind, we transform pain into purpose and silence into expression. Founded by writer and mental health advocate Kiana Jimenez, our platform is both a personal archive of survival and a public sanctuary for resilience.

We exist to give voice to what is often left unsaid—the struggles of mental health, the weight of grief, the contradictions of love, identity, and survival. Through confessional poetry, reflective essays, and evocative illustrations by Dave White, we create a space where vulnerability is honored and emotional truth becomes art.

The Heart of PBM

Breaking stigma and creating conversations that heal.

Honoring love, mourning absence, and finding meaning in remembrance.

Transforming struggle into strength and scars into survival.

Preserving the brief, eternal light of parenthood and exploring love and loss.

Seeking wisdom in silence, faith, and the unseen.

Confronting contradictions without romanticizing or silencing them.

Using words and imagery as vessels of survival, reflection, and transformation.

Transform pain into purpose.

Deconstruct stigma and silence.

Heal through literature, reflection, and visual art.

Preserve a living testimony of survival, grief, and identity.

Poetic Bipolar Mind: where survival becomes art, and even the darkest story finds its light.

From the Vessel of Verses

  • White, David. Psychedelic Sunflower. August 18, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    The Sunflower That Bloomed in the Wrong Timeline

    Psychedelic Sunflower and If Fate Were Kinder explore love that never entered the physical world, yet lived vividly in the mind and heart. Through radiant color and restrained verse, this Emotive Fusion Art pairing honors longing, missed timing, and the quiet ache of connections that bloomed in the wrong timeline.

    Read more: The Sunflower That Bloomed in the Wrong Timeline
  • When Guilt Outlives Freedom

    Jean Valjean leaves prison, but guilt follows. In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo reveals how punishment reshapes identity long after sentences end. This reflection explores mercy, shame, and survival—asking what it means to live freely when the mind still carries the weight of the cell.

    Read more: When Guilt Outlives Freedom
  • White, David. Life Tortoise. July 12, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Carrying the Weight of Living

    Dave White’s Life Tortoise paired with Kiana Jimenez’s I Guess… reflects the quiet endurance of carrying grief while life continues around us.

    Read more: Carrying the Weight of Living
  • White, David. Self-Growth. September 15, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Confronting the Shadow That Shapes Us

    Dave White’s Self-Growth and Kiana Jimenez’s I Am Your Disease confront the brutal reality of healing. Where the poem gives voice to addiction and inner destruction, the illustration reveals growth as resistance—messy, painful, and defiant. Together, they show that becoming whole means facing the shadow, not pretending it was never there.

    Read more: Confronting the Shadow That Shapes Us
  • White, Dave. Hideaway. August 12. 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    Inadequate

    Inadequate is a raw and unflinching reflection on self-worth, trauma, and the long road to healing. Through visceral honesty and poetic defiance, it voices the battle between doubt and resilience—the journey of reclaiming one’s power from pain, transforming “I am not enough” into a quiet, steadfast truth: I am.

    Read more: Inadequate
  • White, David. Psychedelic Sunflower. August 18, 2024, Dave White Illustrations.

    If Fate Were Kinder

    A heartfelt reflection on love that could have been, If Fate Were Kinder captures the quiet ache of what never came to pass. Through tender imagery and longing words, it paints a portrait of two souls separated by circumstance, yet forever entwined by memory, desire, and the echo of possibility.

    Read more: If Fate Were Kinder

From The Vessel of Visions

The Poetic Bipolar Mind Collection

Poetic Bipolar Mind: Unraveling Life’s Threads Through Art and Words

A powerful blend of poetry and prose that explores resilience, mental health, love, and healing. Featuring evocative illustrations by Dave White, this collection transforms pain into beauty and vulnerability into strength.

Poetic Bipolar Mind: Echoes of the Heart

An intimate journey through love, loss, identity, and survival. With 26 poems and 26 illustrations, this expanded collection offers a companion through grief and healing, reminding us that even in pain, beauty can be found.

“Bring Your Vision to Life – Book a Personalized Illustration”

From imagination to ink—David White’s custom illustrations are made uniquely for you. Whether it’s a personal portrait, a gift, or an artistic vision, your story becomes a work of art.

FOUNDED 2009

Founder and Author: Kiana Jimenez

Illustrator: David White

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