Still on this planet

As Rob says, my health does impact on my work but nonetheless I managed to write a whole paper on autobiography without once mentioning anything to do with health! Although autobiography or the personal can’t help but be in one’s work, I try to keep the direct link to health at arms length. Partly I think this is because although I don’t think artwork can be reduced to autobiography, because it is always more than that, there is a risk of reduction because some viewers look no further. Hence sometimes the need not to be too focused on content. My paper ended up being more about the importance of the viewer’s autobiography in constituting subjectivity and the viewer’s experience of the artwork. The problem of reduction applies not only to autobiography, of course, but to any reading of the content of a piece.