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Asthmatic Child Print

Michael Hayter

United Kingdom

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When I was younger, I used to occasionally get episodes of asthma, usually as a consequence of stress and anxiety. The worst of it was that the fear of breathlessness could actually engender more breathlessness, which then created more fear, and in turn, this resulted in even worse asthma. In this painting the child is asthmatic, struggling to breathe, whilst a large monolithic black rock hangs ominously behind and above him, and to which he seems oblivious. Its presence is ominous. However, the environment is a snowy mountain - what in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries was considered to be the right environment for recovery from respiratory (mainly then consumption) diseases. The image becomes one of vulnerability, threat, isolation, and the possibility of recovery in the correct environment. This painting is on 320gms Khadi paper.

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9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 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:

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