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Painting, Gouache on Paper
Size: 6.3 W x 5.1 H x 0.1 D in
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This painting/drawing was originally the sketch for a very large oil on canvas, where the figure was life-size, lost in a field of near-black water - where `up` and `down` were only discernible by the orientation of the figure. I wasn`t happy with the result and the sketch was visually more articulate than the finished piece (which no longer exists). The image is on lining paper, torn to make it seem like we are looking through a chink to the scene beyond. The image came from a sense of being lost, directionless, and alone and was started in 2013, being added to occasionally over the last couple of years, then finished today. From my sense of isolation at that time, I now realise that so many people feel the same way - hence `Another Swimmer`. I see the image now as depicting the situation that many people find themselves in, and so I think of this particular swimmer as one of many, which by getting closer to the chink we may see in the surrounding dark sea.
Original Created:
2015
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Painting:
Gouache on Paper
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One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
6.3 W x 5.1 H x 0.1 D in
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Not Framed
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Not applicable
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Michael Hayter
United Kingdom
"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:
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