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The Baltic: Antony Gormley - Allotment and Domain Field

How do these installations contrast? Explore this in relation to the doctor's (or your) relationship with the patient?

Consider value systems, what it means in medicine. What do the installations say to you? What does it change in you as a doctor?

The discussion:

Allotment

  • Graveyard
  • Grey
  • Claustrophobic
  • Uniform
  • Unrecognisable
  • Cold
  • Depressing
  • Lost
  • Mazes - choice
  • No eyes
  • No movement
  • Unable to relate
  • Heartsinks
  • Some individuality
  • Gems
  • Veneer
  • Mindset box
  • Not seeing a way out
  • Not seeing a way in
  • Intimidation
  

Domain Field

  • Can relate to
  • More personalised
  • Children company - same level
  • Space / light
  • Clearer / superficial
  • Comfort
  • Live / hands / movement
  • Human
  • Complexity = density
  • How our feelings affect how we deal with people
  • Time for concnetration
  • Touch
  • Fragile
    • Response back
    • Careful
    • Spend longer
  • Openness
  • Vulnerable
  • Risk
  • Seeing deeper
  • Reaching out

Choices

Sharing makes it clearer

"I knew we would get something out of it"