Healthcare (Photo 4/4)

“Healthcare.”

 

I am in isolation at the #PeaceArchHospital after having a stroke on January 31, 2023 and somehow contracting chickenpox. There isn’t much in the room I’m in, although there is a small screw in the wall on which a clock or bulletin board was likely hung at one time. This lonely screw became the hook upon which I hung up to three found objects to create what Robert Rauschenberg termed a readymade combine.

 

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This was part of a photo series I did in isolation for a short @themuseumofmodernart @coursera course on ART & IDEAS. I had little to work with in playing with the ideas of Marcel Duchamp.

 

Duchamp would have been interested in knowing if a stethoscope could become an art object simply by hanging it on the wall in a gallery. He coined the term “the readymade” which were as he said, "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice."

 

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#sick #stroke #strokesurvivor #strokerecovery #heartdisease #heartdiseaseawareness #highbloodpressure #diabetes #diabetic #highbloodsugar #anxiety #anxietyproblems #depression #depressionhelp #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #stress

 

#finearts #student #selfie #selfies #selfietime #writing #nonfiction #memoir #visualdiary #visualdiary_art #photooftheday

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