Tuberculosis patient 14

3 artworks identified by Rita Simon's pseudonym "Tuberculosis Patient 14." Some of the descriptions of the artworks are taken from notes written by Wellcome staff during conversations with Rita Simon between 1995 and 1997.

The artworks by this TB patient are quite strongly symbolic and hint towards loneliness, isolation and separation, probably the result of time spent in a sanatorium away from the patient's normal life.

TB patient, a civil servant in a private civil service sanatorium, aged around 30 years old and described by Rita Simon as "A neurotic accountant." Rita Simon described him as being unable to face the frightening implicatons of his illness. Following therapy, Rita Simon described how: "After this he took off and completely broke from more conventional seascapes and the like. He was in a sanatorium and could be sent to Switzerland."

This information and the quote are taken from conversations between Rita Simon and Wellcome staff between 1995 and 1997.