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"The Fire of the Mind Agitates the Atmosphere"
This is one of the many works that Wain produced in Bethlem asylum. Rodney Dale describes this picture so:
This is an exceedingly powerful picture: brown swirls emanate from the cats like the lines of force from magnets, made visible by means of iron fillings. The cat on the left is clearly excercising an influence on the one on the right--and judging from the latter's expression, that influence is not beneficial. Perhaps this was a reflection of the artist's view of the world, that his body was charged with electricity, that ether--the source of all evil--was present in his food, that he was filled with electricity and had magic powers of healing by the laying on of hands.
(from Catland)
