Editing Confessional writing (section)

== Influences on other media ==
[[File:Alison Bechdel at Politics and Prose.jpg|thumb|Cartoonist and writer [[Alison Bechdel]], who merged confessional writing conventions with the [[graphic novel]] form.|left|209x209px]]Confessional writing features and styles have translated into and influenced other non-literary forms: especially in [[contemporary art]] through the use of prominent confessional features such as the divulsion of personal secrets and the presentation of intimate and sometimes scandalous details of the artist's private lives.<ref name=":16">{{Cite journal |last1=Juliff |first1=Toby |last2=Early |first2=Jaye |date=2 October 2019 |title=The self-design of contemporary confessional art |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702029.2019.1676994 |journal=Journal of Visual Art Practice |language=en |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=342–358 |doi=10.1080/14702029.2019.1676994 |s2cid=214539195 |issn=1470-2029}}</ref>

''[[My Bed]]'' is a confessional artwork by [[Tracey Emin]]: depicting a dishevelled bed stained with bodily secretions and surrounded by personal effects including empty vodka bottles, condoms, and menstrual-blood-stained undergarments. The artwork caused public outcry and controversy: employing features of the confessional style — including the presentation of intimate personal effects and socially taboo objects —in challenging the acceptable limits of personal and artistic representation.<ref>Sooke, Alastair. (2013) Tracey Emin – Dirty Sheets and All. The Telegraph.

archive.ph/20130421073607/www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturereviews/3557865/Tracey-

Emin—dirty-sheets-and-all.html.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Laura Lake |date=3 April 2017 |title=Telling stories: performing authenticity in the confessional art of Tracey Emin |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642529.2017.1298336 |journal=Rethinking History |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=296–309 |doi=10.1080/13642529.2017.1298336 |s2cid=151320066 |issn=1364-2529|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

French artist [[Louise Bourgeois]] also explored elements of confessional writing throughout her body of work, especially through representing her relationships with family members. Bourgeois' 1974 tableau ''The Destruction of the Father'' psychologically explored the artist's relationship to her father through biomorphic and phallic objects, presented in a crime-scene scenario – the implication being that the child has cannibalised their overbearing father.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE LONDON LIST — Destruction of the Father |url=https://www.thelondonlist.com/culture/louise-bourgeois |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=THE LONDON LIST |date=3 January 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> The spider motif throughout Bourgeois' art, including in the ''[[Maman (sculpture)|Maman]]'' sculpture series, alludes to Bourgeois' relationship to her mother, and the nourishment and protection it was productive of.<ref>{{Citation |title=Intention and Interpretation |date=20 October 2014 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315729909-6 |work=Introducing Philosophy of Art |pages=85–104 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315729909-6 |isbn=978-1-315-72990-9 |access-date=2022-05-18}}</ref>

Candy Cheng's art installation ''Confessions,'' which has been exhibited across America, Central and Eastern Europe, invited viewers and members of the public to write anonymous confessions onto a wooden board and hang their confession on the work itself, with emphasis on features typical to the confessional writing genre including the catharsis of the act of confession, and the desire to reveal secrets.<ref>Hosmer, Katie. (2012). Exposing Thousands of Anonymous Confessions. My Modern Met,

www.mymodernmet.com/candy-chang-confessions/.</ref>

''[[Fun Home]]'' and ''[[Are You My Mother? (memoir)|Are You My Mother?]]'' are both memoirs by American [[cartoonist]] [[Alison Bechdel]], which incorporate features of confessional writing through the [[graphic novel]] medium.

Academics have also expounded on the self-performativity and confession-based format of reality television shows such as [[Big Brother (franchise)|''Big Brother'']] as having roots in the confessional writing genre.<ref name=":7" /> Critics have likewise highlighted the ubiquity of confessional 'self-disclosure'<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":16"/> in the public domains of social media and the internet, and how twenty-first century technologies are supplanting the traditional distinctions between an individual's public life and private self.<ref name=":16" /><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-97607-5 |title=Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media |date=2018 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-319-97606-8 |editor-last=Dobson |editor-first=Amy Shields |series=Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change |location=Cham |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-97607-5 |editor-last2=Robards |editor-first2=Brady |editor-last3=Carah |editor-first3=Nicholas}}</ref>