This sculpture lights up in different colours. Rudy Loewe held a workshop and asked participants to share their experiences of seeking care. From this, they created a beautiful work, proving that the care system needs to change.
The two sides have different meanings.
On one side you can see the negative care experiences people receive. They are real experiences of trying to ask for help and care. It’s usually difficult, lacking, or harmful.
The other side shows positive care: what better care looks like. There’s more support and connection in care… but it’s rare.
This sculpture has been designed to show the gap between reality and hope. That’s why it’s called ‘The Search for Care / The Lack of Care‘.
You know the game bingo? The words on the sculpture references the grid layout of a bingo card, where you can tick off each experience you have been through in an inadequate care system.
You are not the only one, as these are common experiences.
An invitation from artist Rudy Loewe
From an early age you learn “we don’t ask for help”, not from doctors, hospitals or the police. But willingly or unwillingly, you find yourself in the GP office/hospital/psychiatric unit. And at this moment of need, you are told, “You’re fine, you need to calm down, you’re making a big deal out of nothing. Dismissed. You’re, you’re, you’re. You’re the problem.”
There is no witness to your pain and grief. You feel unseen and unheard.
But there are seeds sown within you of what care could look like. Long-forgotten practices or treatments the GP would laugh away as inconceivable. In your spirit, you know it to be possible.