Time in Pieces
Abbie, Age 16
Suffering from scoliosis meant being in and out of hospital from 2017. Three operations, seven weeks in hospital and ridged back braces day and night; the experience was both mentally and physically draining. In this piece, I focus on the idea of painfully endless time; fragments of hidden meanings and entities sprawled across the piece, and an emotional thought process. By using objects that related to my hospital experience; clock, wire, necklace, hospital band and brick (the view from my hospital window), I drew shapes I saw within them. Painting with movement and emotion, solid-block-coloured shapes appeared. The clock being the most significant shape, time was slow, and excruciatingly, painfully annoying during my time in hospital.
This is a geometric abstraction piece, painted with acrylic in vivid and vibrant colours, that represents the need I had to remain positive about my future at that time.