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Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 14.8 W x 10.8 H x 0 D in
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This image came to me quite unexpectedly as I thought about the labile and transient nature of consciousness. Our conscious mind floats above a deeper, more unconscious self that lumbers along, almost unnoticed by our consciousness, making its own way and its own decisions - making itself felt only through dreams or intrusive thoughts and feelings during our more mundane daily lives. I guess the image, in the light of these musings, is not that surprising if you equate the elephant with the bigger, more unfathomable unconscious mind, and the rider representing the conscious mind. The empty streets, with the apparently empty buildings, serve to point up the dreamlike passage of the slow-moving elephant (unconsciousness) with its diminutive rider (consciousness). The street, by the way, is a representation of the street on which I lived more than twenty years ago, in Stoke Newington in London. This painting is mounted and framed. Dimensions: 36cm x 46cm x 2cm
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:14.8 W x 10.8 H x 0 D in
Frame:Brown
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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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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