Friday, February 18, 2011

When art is painful

My sister Michelle pointed this website out to me today:  www.theannainstitute.org
This site showcases the artwork of Anna Caroline Jennings, a woman who died in a mental hospital, after years of being sexually abused, misdiagnosed and just generally treated as if she were not human.  Her medical and legal expenses totaled around $4,000,000.  And she was just ONE person in our illustrious health care system. Hmmmmm.... scary! And sad.   I look forward to when our health care system is focused on real and natural healing, and not in making someone rich based on their forcing ill people to be even more sick than before (or even worse, more dead than before).    
Here is one of Anna's impressive paintings:



I notice that the central figure in Anna's painting above, is surely based on the left most woman in Henri Matisse's painting, "The Dance", as shown here:



Well, this has been a decidedly depressing post!  Cheer up.  Maybe tomorrow I'll write about edible body paints (read about those today)!
Catch ya later.  :)




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