Particularly interested in aiding people experiencing mental hardships, including those with PTSD, I am asking, “If what someone has seen can break a person, can an image be a part of their healing?”
The paintings require activation, to be opened, to be seen. Over the years these have been given, as a pharmacist fills a prescription, as part of my relational art practice.
Hospitals and care homes can be visited with this medicinal painting first aid kit - a lap gallery. The portable gallery can be placed by a volunteer, onto the patient's lap or bedside table. Patients can be invited to open the lids, allowing them the element of surprise and intimacy in their discovery... to be allowed to explore, perhaps while constrained to a bed. Hidden magnets in the case’s lid also hold them up for viewers.
- Subject Matter: Conceptual Art
- Created: c. 2020
- Collections: Conversations Through Clouds, Art Gallery of NWT, 2020, Lap Galleries, Medicine Tins, Tiny Art
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