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Symptomatic; Acrylic and latex on canvas; 12 x 14″; $250
Image Description
An abstract image of a man’s face. He has a slight smile on his face. Over his face and in the background are various splotches of colour: light blue, red, yellow, black and white.
Artist Statement
This abstract image of a man’s face might express the obscure and confusing experience of brain injury symptoms. The face, with colour and lines throughout, and poised on a background itself splotchy, messy, and unpredictable, might suggest the unsettled, shifting nature of confusion.
The eyes, neither open nor closed, seem undefined, possibly unable to be receptive. A splash of white paint at the head might evoke erasure, a confusion so overwhelming it amounts to nothingness, to white noise.
The mouth, however, might offer some hope as it tries to shape a smile. Perhaps this presentation of instability and suffering also gestures towards a striving for acceptance and a wish for contentment, and so towards the healing that we wish to follow.