Blurry Face (2023) // Marker on paper
courtesy the artist
More from Paddy:
More about Paddy:
The first days in the psychiatric ward, chain smoking and brooding. Wandering around disorientated, as if controlled by a remote control. Dissociative. Also shame about your own neglect and your own condition.
Lots of familiar faces on the ward – so-called boomerang patients. Some of them I’ve known for years and we’ve become kind of friends.
To kill time, I paint as if obsessed. When the mood strikes me, I also write. Pour me one coffee at a time. Feel addictive. Fancy some schnapps. The voices in my head are taunting demons. As long as I’m not on medication, I discuss with them like I would with a confused audience that wants to boycott a reading.
Every now and then I stare into space and feel a yawning emptiness. My psyche is fragile, like a wine glass or a flower. But I have to believe that I can find my way out of this hole and process my condition artistically.
Blog post from Paddy’s blog (11/13/2023)
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