Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Diagnosis

For a start Dr. Jon perhaps you could examine this .jpeg image and if necessary suggest a remedy or diagnosis? Huw as a trainee Doctor of sorts might want to add something. Though I envisage myself in the role of Practice Manager I my add my comments at this stage. The work was created by Dave Thompson and it's called "With My Wife":

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  1. Dr.JonGilhooly16 December 2009 at 22:26

    This picture requires many years of therapy. Many years.

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  2. Mocksim16 December 2009 at 22:41

    The PICTURE requires therapy. Why?

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  3. Dr.JonGilhooly19 December 2009 at 14:35

    Clearly the answer here lies in the fact that this can only be the work of art as it appears before me on screen - a binary matrix translated into shapes and colours. Therefore, what this picture 'wants' is scale, substance and materiality; haptic presence and a feeling of history or provenance. It is unable to speak with the authority of any of these qualities, or is unable wholly to display its muteness. Because of this, the immediate temptation is to comment upon the symbolic content of the image, in the same way that, were we to view images of 'psychic surgery' (also known a bare-handed healing) from the Philippines, its significance would be reduced (through the medium of photography) to a dialectical position between belief and skepticism. If on the other hand, we were to witness such a procedure in the flesh, our response would almost certainly be more complex and ambiguous.

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