Free Healing
Frieze Art Fair 2012
Free Healing
Year of production: 2012
Coming back to Frieze the year after making the film 'Do I really want to be in this world?' I was again thrown by the superficiality and plagued by questions such as - what is the point of all this.
The night before Frieze opened I was supposed to be at some party, but I couldn't face it, I was all ready sick of partying. At the time I was thinking of making a piece called 'How meaningful is your social life?' And do a study like the loneliness one. Anyway I sat at home thinking about what was going on when I suddenly had an image in mind of a healer at Frieze and how that would look after all art is supposed to be about making you better isn't it?
And I drew the following sketch:
Then set about making the sign.
On the day I dressed in my burning man outfit, I had not long ago returned from, and where I wore my Frieze Press card. I liked the irony. And I went to Frieze as a healer and indeed did give people 'healing'.
I only really got one good picture from the day, the one at the top, and I liked that picture because it shows my trouble, my pain, capturing the essence of the wounded healer.