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"Programmed In! (Unwillingly.) Woe is me!" (missing - not transferred to Wellcome)

Submitted to the Third Migraine Art Competition (adult) Main theme: Aura Second theme: Life 
Tags: female figure, female artist, portrait, head, genetics, c-shape, zigzag, words, why me?, distorted vision, visual disturbance, electricity. Artist won second place in the Second Migraine Art Competition. This winning entry is not part of the current collection. Artist note: Title: 'Programmed In! (Unwillingly.) Woe is me!' Part of a series; see also SA/MAR/325 and 471. Artist from the South West.

Migraine Art Competition Collection

Abstract in black, red and yellow

Abstract in yellow with stars

"Pain associated with an attack"

Abstract kaleidoscope design

Black and white silhouette of figure with zigzag aura

Holiday migraine

A day with migraine

"Migraine"

Explosive images associated with aura

Migraine symptoms

Migraine head

Kitchen migraine with kitten

Behind bars

"Why me? Why now?"

Migraine eyes

Clock

"Fortification Spectra. (Spectrum)"

Eye with visual disturbance

Abstract with c-shapes, checkerboard and other visual distortions

Woman with missing vision, surrounded by concerned onlookers

"Form of visual disturbance"

Smiling child with diamond-shaped and checkerboard disturbances

Woman on sofa obscured by c-shape scotoma with black

Landscape with c-shape scotoma and missing vision

Woman surrounded by stars

Abstract aura in green, red and orange

Divided face in sunshine and shade with aura, music and pill bottle

Abstract black and white geometrical shapes and coils with rotational symmetry

Abstract in blue with green rectangles

In the migraine garden

Sunshine shining into eye with foliage and blue stripes into black

"My body during a migraine attack"

Visual explosion and zigzag  aura

Black and white abstract face with lightning, stairs, checkerboard and people

Tree with visual disturbance

Multi-coloured abstract with eye theme

"Pattern"

Spider's web

"The Mask of Migraine: Reverse Image"

On the train

Spider's web in white with orange

Three sided head with jigsaw

Reading with aura

"Journey through Migraine"

"Oh! I wish I was at school"

"No!"

"Sunshine: Enemy or Friend"

Portrait of woman's face with rainbow visual disturbance over right eye

"The Two Faces of Migraine"

Head with pain and aura

Checkerboard with splitting axe

"Sorry Closed for Migraine"

Multiple aura with clock and face half obscured on left

Pencil outline of face with red, black and yellow visual disturbance

Splitting skull releasing monsters

Child attacked by hammer and lightning with lightbulb

Eye with abstract aura

Abstract: yellow spot on black background

Skull with stars

Head and shoulders in landscape with ghostly heads and swirling aura

Face obscured by aura and visual disturbance street scene

"Migraine, Attack, Help, Attack"

Portrait of woman with zigzag aura

Male figure looking at distorted reflection in a bathroom mirror

Portrait of female figure with visual disturbance

Man at work half obscured by visual disturbance

Distorted image of child

Table, chairs and window with checkerboard disturbance

Breakfast still life with black and zigzag aura

A piece of the jigsaw

Clock face with visual disturbance

"A Migraine 'Attack' ''

Easel and stool with checkerboard disturbance

Abstract: jagged shapes with colour

Abstract: C-Shape on brown background

"Absolutely fed-up with pills"

Portrait of woman with zigzags and red ribbon

Figure looking at distorted reflection in mirror, blind spots and halos present

Toilet bowl

Abstract aura line drawing

Portrait of woman distorted by mosaic and zigzag aura

Female figure in blue, red and black with swirls

Woman's face with nails

Covered eye

Woodland scene with spiral aura

Prevented by migraine

Abstract with zigzags, stars and crenellations

Face with hammer, star and spiral

Abstract in pink, red, and grey with yellow zigzag

Domestic interior with c-shaped aura

Rabbits, flowers and aura

Sitting woman inside an eye with red zigzags and yellow dots

Woman in bed with phone

"Ouch", abstract image of photosensitivity

Hand and c-shaped aura

Trapped inside the eye

Crouched figure

Seascape with c-shape

Kitchen still life with blind spot

Woman's head with collage zigzags

"All Though The Night"

"River Thames Nr. Runnymede"

Migraine nightmare

Bird feeder with corona

Teaching with a migraine

Managing to write with aura

Abstract with c-shaped scotoma in white

Abstract in pencil with lightning

Park scene with visual disturbance

Rural scene with c-shaped scotoma

Vase of flowers with corona

Fragmenting face

Abstract aura in yellow and blue

Science Teacher

Dining room with aura

Looking at a vase through aura

An eye with multi-coloured zigzags

Metal helmet clamp with c-shaped scotoma

Head on fire

Driving with aura

Newspaper with aura

Abstract head with aura

Hammered by little devils

Migraine Art Competition aura

Skull clamp

Woman holding head in pain

Still life: roses with aura

Inside the migraine head

Monstrous green figure

Little devils

"Migraine Attack" Medusa like figure with snakes for hair in a web

Female figure with lightbulb

A body in migraine

Landscape with visual disturbance

"Trigger Point"

Abstract in black, green and pink

Face split in half. One half pained and aflame

Split face with hammer and orbiting stars

"Pain!, Pain!!, Pain!!!"

Figure holding head

Man holding head with aura

Face obscured by waves with zigzags

Abstract head, half in darkness

Split in half, red, yellow and blue

Pentagon kaleidoscope

Male face with zigzag and visual disturbance

Woman's face with black zigzag and kaleidoscope

"The Power of Pain"

Hill with c-shaped scotoma

Facial features on orange

Crying face with arrows and black stream

Question marks over life

"For only yours as introduction to language"

"Mirror Image"

Eye with zigzag aura

"Onset of Migraine in a Peaceful Landscape"

Stages of migraine with five figures

"Migraine! Cause and Effect"

Thinking of migraine

Man's head with red rays

Male figure under attack by small masked men

"Oh No, Not Again!"

The progression of aura symptoms over 40 minutes

Abstract  colour spray on grey and black

Abstract of pained face with blood

"Group"

Problem migraine

Head with black hatching

Abstract repeating design

Chained figure in pain with waves

"Migraine Martyr"

Impression of a face

"Leigh-on-Sea under Migraine Attack"

Split face with aura on black and white.

Feeding the ducks

"Migraine facial distortion"

Abstract face

'Hell in the mind'

Woodland scene with aura rays

"How can you read when the page looks like this?"

Screaming head

"Scotoma"

Striped head with aura eye

"Agony Again"

"My Throbbing Head"

Crouched female figure within the pupil of an eye

"The Epicenter"

"Untitled"

"Programmed In! (Unwillingly.) Woe is me!" (missing - not transferred to Wellcome)

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