Migraine and Visual Arts
| Author: Klaus Podoll | 19. May 2007 |
| Edited by: Klaus Podoll |
Diary of a Heretic
Entry to art contest Migraine Images, 1992. © 2007 GlaxoSmithKline
Beauty and the Beast: Both Women
Luckily, every migraine is not as extreme as this last one. After five days and nights, the pain has faded to where it hardly exists.? The aftermath is merely anxiety and exhaustion, both everyday maladies, though coming hard and fast after such a long and disorienting attack, they claim the upper hand, at least for today. I feel shaky and frightened of "nothing specific," which may be more unnerving than feeling frightened of a snarling dog, say. For me to write fiction requires a lot of nerve. By Monday morning either I will have regained my footing or I'll feel so wrought up that I have not written fiction in a full week, I will without hesitation hurl myself into it, a wild high dive, be it clumsy or as a well-formed as I ever get. The costume-band story (first episode / most recent episode) will continue…
Last evening, when my head still hurt so much I found it a challenge to talk—me!—let alone write at all, Manny suggested we post a picture of a person with a migraine. Try Googling "free migraine art."? When this yellow woman appeared, I considered it apt. He said, no, it was too ugly; I shouldn’t post ugly art.
"Migraines aren't pretty."
"Still, there must be something better."
So we kept looking, unable to agree. He thought a colorful skeleton would look good, but migraines are a disease of the nervous system combined with vascular confusion. Nothing skeletal involved. He was tired and turned his attention elsewhere, so I began searching. Probably what he wanted was a picture of a beautiful woman. Then this picture appeared. I said, "Here you are."
Brigitte Bardot
So we kept looking, unable to agree. He thought a colorful skeleton would look good, but migraines are a disease of the nervous system combined with vascular confusion. Nothing skeletal involved. He was tired and turned his attention elsewhere, so I began searching. Probably what he wanted was a picture of a beautiful woman. Then this picture appeared. I said, "Here you are."
"Yes," he said. "Brigitte Bardot. Perhaps she suffered migraines."
Perhaps. Why else was she included in the Google compilation, as scattershot as they often are? I don't know. I don't even know if the picture really is Brigitte Bardot. The likeness is very much the twentieth century’s icon of a beautiful woman; I agree with that much. The connection with migraines? One of life's especially inconsequential little mysteries, but for Bardot's fans, a very pretty coincidence, I'm sure.
(Diary of a Heretic, blog, 2007) © Copyright 2007 Diary of a Heretic. All rights reserved
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