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Death Goes Shopping Painting

Michael Hayter

United Kingdom

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 3.9 W x 4.3 H x 0.2 D in

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A ghostly image of a Death`s Head is etched onto a cracked gesso surface, reminiscent of a cave painting or faded fresco. The only clear parts of the image are the two shopping bags the figure carries. Whereas most of the painting is monochrome, the bags are in vivid colour. I painted this image on a particularly `black` day, when, forced to go food shopping in the local branch of a well-known supermarket, I reflected bitterly on the alienation such places engender and gloomily thought about whether anybody would notice or care if I dropped dead. The bright colours of the shopping bags, advertising the supermarket ,only served to compound my bitterness. As I say, a grim day!

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:3.9 W x 4.3 H x 0.2 D in

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"Although I state that much of my work stems from the imagery thrown up by depression, I would say that it is also the imagery of unconscious connection.Indeed the two are irrevocably entwined. It is no accident that the appearance of animal symbols and the use of bodily products such as hair, urine and blood is also influenced by my former work as a veterinary surgeon. Some time spent in psychoanalysis has helped me to illuminate these connections to find a personal mythology, which I believe connects to a universal meaning of what it is to be human. The `otherness` of animals, their power, vulnerability, unselfconsciousness and instinctual drives, and their relationship with us, are potent symbols of qualities we also have - qualities which we struggle with in our attempts to remain in control of ourselves and our society. It is where these tensions meet that my work is situated." Studio: Sculpture Shed, Spike Island, 133, Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX. Tel: (0117) 929 2266; Email: michael.hayter@blueyonder.co.uk

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