Clare Caldwell – ‘Broken Wings’
Broken Wings
Artist: Clare Caldwell
Title of Piece: “Broken Wings”
About the Piece: Feeling of impotence and rage as the losses impede on my life so relentlessly. Losses become physical, spiritual, ideological, intellectual and the emotional.
Archetypal mid-life search for Self.
About the Artist: I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam. Have been exhibiting and free-lancing (when time, health and money permit) for many years now.
Have had fibromyalgia for about 10 years now, presenting as relentless severe pain that I wake up with and go to sleep with. It’s prevented me from working full time or even part time (mostly). Pain sucks all the joy and optimism out of you – you disconnect with life and the life-force when it’s really bad. Painting helps me transcend the pain.
I spent 12 months in hospital having 41 operations on my back and legs. I was alone, but desperate to get home to my small children. This painting totally, utterly and completely shows what I felt. I’m suffering terrible chronic pain as a result, and I have to say, this is the most incredible, heart-wrenching, and emotional painting that for me is so true-to-life. Thank you for this and for sharing it. It is so darkly beautiful.
October 2, 2010 at 1:44 am
This made me cry, it is such a true portrail of the pain we all suffer at sometime in our lifes.
September 24, 2010 at 9:54 am
Conveys precisely the life of those affected by chronic pain.
A broken spirit, a broken body, a broken soul, broken emotions,a life of wasted opportunities, a life of shattered dreams. And yet for some brief moments we have had our eyes opened, our wings unfurled and our hurt was healed just long enough to see a glimmer of hope and onto that we latch ourselves.
September 22, 2010 at 10:00 am
I’m not well versed in the area of art & expression through art, however, the more I look at this, the more I see & relate to. Art speaks, art shows. Well done.
September 21, 2010 at 7:20 pm
An extraordinary work -most vivid and quite captivating.
September 21, 2010 at 7:08 pm
An extraordinary artwork that portrays in exact measure how many of us, all or most of the time, are totally gripped by this reality. The image invokes a profound, deafeningly silent soulscreaming response
September 21, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I think this artwork conveys very well the fear, horror and helplessness that the victim is feeling – unable to understand the reason for this pain, trapped within one’s self and stuggling blindly to try to find some way out. A very strong, and heart – wrenching piece of work!
September 21, 2010 at 9:04 am