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Don`t Hate Me Painting

Michael Hayter

United Kingdom

Painting, Gesso on Canvas

Size: 5.9 W x 8.3 H x 0.6 D in

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This piece emanates from my reading of Harlow`s psychological experiments that were carried out in the 1960s, on infant rhesus monkeys and their attachment to their mothers. Some were given cloth-covered wire imitations of their mothers` bodies, others completely deprived of comfort and social contact. A cruel experiment in which those deprived of all early comfort became neurotic and permanently severely psychologically disturbed. In children this can result in the child believing they are to blame or are somehow `wrong`. The child will cling to anything that gives potential comfort in their state of complete emotional deprivation. Here the figure clings to another darker and shadowy animal figure - each gaining comfort from the other`s proximity. A small skull on the body of the figure in the foreground lends his fluffy mantle a shamanic air, as does the bloody smear - indicating the loss of innocence through initiation - the narcissistic wound.

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Painting:Gesso on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:5.9 W x 8.3 H x 0.6 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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