I can't help the way I feel
I can't help the way I feel
Published 2018-02-02T11:49:39+00:00
In this work lies an interest in a possibility of the emotional landscape of the body becoming manifest in its surface.
Visually, the way in which the flesh grows, erupts and engulfs the body can be seen as a metaphor of the way in which we become incapacitated by the emotional landscape in which we live and over which we have little control. The body also appears to be suffering from some kind of malignancy, as in cancer, but, for me, the image of the figure, coupled with the title, leads one into an open contemplation of the plight of the individual.
John Isaacs
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Date published | 02/02/2018 |
Complexity | Medium |
Title | I can't help the way I feel |
Date | 2003 |
Credit | Wellcome Collection |
Record | https://wellcomecollection.org/ |
Artist | John Isaacs |
Place | Wellcome Collection |