Alexandra Reinhardt 1960-2004. River and Red Butterfly -- psychiatry in pictures.

摘要

Diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan anaemia and congenital deafness as an infant and sentenced to years of transfusions, admissions and medications, the artist Alexandra Reinhardt initially used art as a form of therapy. During the long hours of transfusions she would vent her frustration by making collages out of the equipment used: giving sets, syringes and blood transfusion bags. In her twenties she was the first deaf student at the Chelsea College of Art and continued to use the visual arts and poetry as a means of expressing the impact of her condition.