Stephen Heptinstall
About the artist:
Stephen Heptinstall is a cardiac rehabilitation practitioner and researcher at Hereford County Hospital, Hereford, UK. He strives for a holistic approach to practice, which involves listening to the voice of his clients’ “lifeworld.”
About the artwork:
“I undertook a series of reflective pieces as part of my research into farming couples’ experiences of living with angina pectoris. These featured both imagery and and senyru (human haiku) intrepretation of client narratives. My aim was to capture emotional high points, so that my findings would reach the hearts of readers, and not just their heads.“
Visuals editor:
Sara Kohrt
1 thought on “The Cows Call”
I like how the fence and the shadow of the fence catches my non-medical imagination of the highways and byways of cardiac arteries. Also I’ve been recipient of medical professionals’ matter-of-fact tone concerning (a normal-to-them) diagnosis or procedure vs. my more personal, oh-my reaction to the information (it’s a new thing! It’s happening-to-me).
The provider might have had given the diagnoses many times that day/week/months/year but it’s the very first time for the patient.