About This Item

  • TitleThe emptiness within.
  • Call NumberVETS_0065
  • Date2011
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, black & white
  • Genrerelief prints
  • CreatorRickey, Mark
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CollectionVeterans Creative Arts Program collection
  • SummaryRelief print depicting a figure filled with symbols of depression. Artwork made for project: Inked identity, 2011: veterans explore tattoos, led by VA creative arts therapist Beryl Brenner and Museum of Modern Art educator Sally Paul. Artwork shown in exhibit at Museum of Modern Art in November, 2011. Exhibition label: Mark Rickey, The emptiness within. “Who I was is dead. My life is now black, emptiness filled with anxiety and depression, taking pill after pill, thoughts of bad things: a life of each day of hell repeating itself over and over again.”
  • SubjectVeterans--United States
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright OwnerNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program