Angela Butt

Laco Cellar and Ivan Vaclavic

Clayton Campbell

Clayton Campbell, This is How it Feels, 1989. © 2005 National Headache Foundation

"'This is How it Feels' is an illustration depicting the multi-faceted effects of migraine pain."

(Cited from "Migraine Masterpiece" exhibit, List of works, National Headache Foundation 1989)

"Clayton Campbell, an artist in Santa Fe, N.M., says his parents didn't do much about his headaches until he was 12. 'By the time I was 5, they were incapacitating,' he says. 'No one really knew it was migraine, they just thought it was bad headaches or a difficult child.' Now 38, Campbell describes the migraine experience as 'an extraordinary environment you enter in which your perceptions are altered in a negative way, and the way you see yourself functioning in the world becomes incredibly distorted - really grotesque distortions.'

Although his exhibition entry, 'This is How It Feels,' is his first attempt to depict the pain, Campbell's lifelong experience of it has influenced his approach to art. 'A lot of my work deals with problematic things,' he explains, 'with social and political upheavals and problems, human right abuses, things that could be called global migraines. I think it's one step removed from actually doing autobiographical pieces about how I feel.'"

(Cited from Webb, 1989, p. 9)

References

Webb A. Pain as art. Exhibit depicts the violence of migraine headaches. American Medical News November 24, 1989; 32 (no. 44): 9.

Author: Klaus Podoll
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