I’m in Love With Jackson Pollock
I have always loved the work of Jackson Pollock, but when I came across this untitled piece of his, I just sat here in amazement by the depth of emotion that was evoked as I viewed it. Looking at this beautiful piece, I wonder how other women suffering with hair loss will interpret it? Tell me your thoughts…
Charlie on Thu, 27th Nov 2008 4:44 am
If i connected this piece with my hair loss experience- I see it in two ways.
One is that I see the figure in the middle as me. I am being weighted down by the harshness of hair loss. It is taunting me, pulling life away from me and exhausting me. I see the colors as portraying a sense of anxiety, exhaustion and panic. There is even a bit of grittiness which I could connect to the pure bitterness of this loss.
The second way is more simple- I dont want to be that person. I can use this picture to reflect on what I can be, and what I know i could be so easily but must not.
Im tired. Its two in the morning. Im crazy at this hour!
Angela on Thu, 27th Nov 2008 9:17 am
Hi Charlie,
I am always amazed at how art can be so deeply personal and help us reflect on our state of being at any particular moment in time.
When I saw this piece, I wondered what I would have thought of it five years ago when I was first experiencing hair loss, but when you left your comment, my god!, I could totally relate to what you were saying. It brought all those feelings of angst I had back to the forefront of my mind and I “remembered.”
At this time in my life, I see the figure in the middle as being me, and the skeleton is my past beliefs of what beauty is and how it defines me. I have claimed my new beauty not with a white flag of surrender, but a blue flag of victory and I arise out of the battle of despair as everyone looks on. I am naked in my experience and I am free.