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Vivienne Jolie’s hospital paintings hold more than one kind of memory
In “The Tulip Field,” the 18-year-old paired paintings with hospital journals, preserving distress alongside memories of friendship, laughter and care.
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- Vivienne Marcheline Jolie describes entering the hospital angry, sick and alone. The paintings she later made preserve that distress—but also the laughter, safety and friendships that became part of the same experience. In a Los Angeles exhibition, the 18-year-old presented an account of hospitalization for an eating disorder that resists a tidy division between suffering and consolation.