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Pickpocket Conga Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Paper
Size: 23.2 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in
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A group of disparate people queue as if waiting for a bus. Amongst them are pickpockets, each thieving from the person in front with the victims unaware of what is happening to them. There is a relationship in the group between abusers and victims and yet they are still a group. The young man/boy on the far right looks at the viewer with an ambiguous expression - guilty, pathetic and knowing at the same time, perhaps a victim of his own circumstance. The woman at the front seems the least engaged in the 'conga', looking as she does into the distance, into infinity. She is my mother, who died last year. I am the young pickpocket at the tail of the conga.
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Painting:Oil on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:23.2 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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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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