rain that says, make art’ – and partly to draw a veil over what may lie in his psychological depths. ‘I find that
awing,’ he says, ‘I start thinking about stuff, and that usually leads me down a road where I don't want to
 2014) It was not always this way. Sarkin had previously run a successful chiropractic practice and became
ly in his mid-thirties after an epiphany of sorts, which is usually attributed to a catastrophic brain injury he
 a result of complications from an operation to ease pressure on his acoustic nerve caused by a swollen
el. He remained in a semi-comatose state for months afterwards and as he healed it became clear that
hanged. Besides some debilitating physical effects, he had  also undergone an  alteration in character,  the
nifestation of which was that there were no longer any social filters – from that time on, Sarkin said exactly
, which can be simultaneously refreshing and challenging. The other was a new compulsion to make art. It
t this epiphanic change actually began at the moment he experienced the first symptoms of the pressure in
ring a golf game, when he said he experienced a ‘painless, but very powerful and palpable explosion in my
t 2011) Although this led to unbearable tinnitus and the decision to undergo a fateful operation, even after

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