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Description: | May Cornet's Haemoglobin Portraits were produced as part of the Year of The Artist residency undertaken with Wolverhampton Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Support Project. Sickle Cell disease is an inherited blood disorder which affects the red blood cells in the body.Living with the illness can be very difficult for sufferers. They experience a lot of pain caused by blood cells forming a sickle shape and creating clotting in the blood stream. Some sufferers need regular blood transfusions in order to manage their condition.The artist has used embroidery to show how the blood cells change. The bright red silk on the black and white photography has a striking affect. We are reminded that the disease is always present for these families even though it is invisible on the outside.
Photographs showing a woman and two girls with red 'Haemoglobin' at the front | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Genetic diseases Fine arts Girls Women Photographs Works on paper Black peoples Illness | Temporal: | 2001
21st century | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | CORNET; May (1975 -) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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