My “I am bought” (see August 26th, 2006 post below) and my “Doc the scientist” paintings are part of a group show at the Gallery Gachet in Vancouver. Westerm Medicine is so focused on quantity and measurement. Quantity of life that is making us live longer preoccupies its efforts with relatively less attention and ressources given to improving ou quality of life while we live it.
This is one of the reasons mental health research and services have been at a disadvantage. It is a multilayered problem all the way from the individual to the CEO’s and governments. Yet the secret to our future is held in the jelly between our ears defying measurement.