Solo exhibition in Drukerijmuseum 2006 / Meppel 印刷博物馆2006 - 钟鼐个人绘画作品展
Nurse: how could your put your finger into the grinder?
I: I felt hungry, and all I thought about was the minced meat.
Nurse: Your finger is injured now, and your work will be affected for some time.
I: It’s ok. Injury for the left hand finger will not cause too much trouble.
Nurse: What kind of job do you do then?
I: I’m a free artist.
Nurse: ah, so you are an artist… Then it is understandable why you put your finger into the grinder….
An interesting but somewhat awkward dialogue, isn’t it?
(It seems that no matter in which country, artists are usually granted to be an non normal group of persons. But I think I am normal enough)
In the early summer of 2006, I was invited to hold a solo exhibition in Drukerijmuseum in Meppel. Two days before the opening of the exhibition, at a sultry noon time, I felt rather hungry. So I stopped painting and went into the kitchen. There I found a pack of pasta but regretted to find no minced meat for sauce. Then I saw a piece of beef in the refrigerator, and I intended to mince the meat with a grinder special for nuts. The grinder soon stopped working , and the beef paste inside could not turn around anymore. Subconsciously I put my finger into the grinder in a wish to dig out the minced meat. The meat was dug out soon and the grinder started to turn fast again, but meanwhile my finger was cut seriously by the grinder…
In hospital, a young Kurdish woman doctor made a suture for me. She was beautiful and serious too. It took her almost 50 minutes to finish the suture.
Since the finger was still quite painful after the suture, I had to hold the finger upside for the coming weeks. And two days later, with the same posture, I attended the opening ceremony of my exhibition.
