Abducted

“The image of a pillow that a kind woman put under the head of an injured young soldier is particularly poignant. In that painting, imprinted creases morph, a little hesitantly, into the skeleton of an open hand – fusing the woman’s generous help with her subsequent orchestrated ‘disappearance’. “

Slavka Sverakova, Art Historian (Exhibition catalogue essay Paddy McCann 2013, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast).

Artwork set in 1972.