At the moment (7/4/2025), there is a planned strike by medical doctors this week to strike at a large hospital for better conditions, better pay, better hours and to get more doctors in. Presently, there is a doctor shortage in Australia and I have seen first hand, doctors constantly suffering from burnout. One of my doctors was trying not to fall asleep in front of me after a busy day and the night before working at the local hospital. I cross my fingers and pray something good will come of all of this. The work here shows a typical doctors round of every day work, and it is non stop.
This is a drawing titled ‘Dr. Kalantar, I Presume’, which will be a part of a series of drawings and paintings for an upcoming exhibition. This series are of specialists and those that serve to help make my health better, whether it be physical, mental, emotional, or through the gift of helping to care for my animals.. This is important too, for my emotional state.
The exhibition is planned to be about a year from now (from now, August 2024) but we will see how this pans out. It is planned that this exhibition is to thank and honour those who are in the service for others that are in some way connected medically and emotionally serving in my life. They make my life a better place health wise. I am a fortunate person to have these very kind and caring people around me. This is hoped to also bring about recognition through the exhibition of these people who are often not thanked for their great work. All of these people worked through the tirade of the Covid Era, and they still carry on.
I have been a medical patient since I was 19 years old, and as the years increase, the autoimmune diseases add. Ergo, I am often very busy with specialists. Having this sort of lifestyle separates me from a real life with friends and social life. Art and specialists are my lifestyle.
The image here is of the Gastroenterological system. A little man with hands and feet akimbo has his wide mouth open displaying all of his gut. The rest of the art is about night and day, the lives of normal people whose gut systems work well, to those who are feeling the pinch of terror. With this work is the accompanying painting of the doctor specialising in this discipline. Dr. Kalantar stands at the door of the bowel and ponders the important next steps to his procedure. This is right at the ‘bottom’ of the drawing mid centre. Ink on acid free card. A4 in size.
Rage. December 2023 is an ink drawing on acid free card, and is about the effects of taking unprescribed drugs. I knew of a person that every time I saw them coming down from a a party night the rage in them was terrible. This drawing is about the beast that comes from a person such as this.
Sushi is a Pastel drawing on a square canvas. Approximate canvas size is 500cms x 500 cms, but with 120cms added for mat, frame, including non reflective exhibition glass, it is quite bigger.. The subject is apparent that it is a cat. But you do not know that this truly is a very well mannered gentleman cat…at that!
Here we have 2 very short stories. One is about how song tunes can get stuck in your head, and the other is about how some people say they love your work and they are very impressed until you ask them to really examine the work..The twist is is that when the ‘bluff'(/) is called the actions become almost petty and very different than from the first things that have been said. It does amuse me. Ink on acid free card A4.
Untitled 3 May 2023 Ink drawing. This drawing is one of a series of drawings drawn in my hospital stay in May 2023.
After drawing about the goings on at the hospital the few drawings before this I really needed to draw something pretty. I was going through a really, blood and guts time of it, and took advantage whenever I didn’t have a cannula in my drawing hand when it didn’t hurt. This eased my emotions somewhat. A4. Ink on acid free card.
Experiences At The Hospital. 5th May 2023 This work is more or less a conceptual work about the goings in and goings out of the patients in the hospital. Some get to go home, others turn into angels, while others have to face their fears and have to face them. Hospitals are not the nicest of places to visit for time off. Really. :-/ Still, they are places where many and most people do get to go home, all clean and patched up. Ink on A4 acid free card.
A rather whimsical work, though the truth of the matter is that I have had 13 cats in my loungeroom, though quite some years ago. I used to rescue cats, but I do not do it on such a large scale these days. Unfortunately, people in my area who were renting that could not afford to rent anymore, left their animals behind for other people to take care of the homeless. Its quite the disgusting part about human nature isn’t it, right?
