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John Hudson
Figure 1. John Hudson, Migraine Eyes, 2003. "It's the sensation of a needle piercing my eye." © 2005 John Hudson (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ humber/telling_lives/humber_intermediary6.shtml, November 22, 2003)
Of Art & MigrainesBy John Hudson
Play the film produced for "BBC Humber − telling lives − your digital story" |
Interview with John HudsonPlease tell us about yourself I am a lecturer in Art History, Design Theory at Hull's universities and adult education centres. What's your story about? The relationship between my migraines and my practice as an artist. Why did you choose to tell this particular story? I wanted to explore this particular connection with my artwork, and the way my imagination works. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/ telling_lives/more_from_humber6.shtml, November 27, 2003) |
Of Art and Migraines - Script"Here is the script for my digital story: I never know what the trigger is going to be. Cheese, chocolate or a glass of red wine. The odd thing is, it never happens if I drink a whole bottle. Ouch! My migraine begins. It's the sensation of a needle piercing my eye. Sensitive to light I stumble into bed. Dark forms visit my world and I hope for sleep. I close my eyes and I'm in a white room. My usual hallucinations begin. I see circles, shapes and red roses pulsing with the pain. They fill my whole vision, populating the room. I close my eyes and they are still there. I drift in and out of sleep, but they follow me. There is a point where my tormentors become playful and as the pain subsides I can move the patterns about to form strange compositions. The colours change too and I start to think about how I might put these images together. Can they be fixed in paint? Or photographed? Now I do not know whether I am asleep or awake. I think I'm entering the white room again. Oh morning at last. Everything is calm. Even though I am awake, without pain, the images stay with me and become my work. I am sorry about the delay I have been very busy." (Email to Klaus Podoll, March 12, 2004) |
Figure 2. John Hudson, Stills from the film Of Art & Migraines, 2003. © 2005 John Hudson (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ humber/telling_lives, November 22, 2003)
"The above still is taken from the film Of Art & Migraines. The top image shows the eye motif which occurs in my work. The image acts as a surrogate for the migraine effect on the eyesight. It is also an attempt to illustrate a hallucination of eyes appearing in objects or surfaces like woodgrain during a headache. This is a rather problematic image because they have too much definition and as the central drawn image shows, they disappear into each other. The central image also acts as a surrogate in more active way. As well as being a rather raw image it was produced at speed and with such force it cut into the paper and eye motifs. As these eyes appeared, in the forefront of my mind were the eye slicing sequence from Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou (1928) and the dream sequence from Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945). The bottom image is one which represents what I see when I close my eyes when I have a migraine. It is always a bright white room. Again this image is not as accurate as I would like it. The image in my mind is more minimalistic. These are of course artistic problems which I aim to resolve."
(Email to Klaus Podoll, March 12, 2004)
Author: Klaus Podoll
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