mixed media, 2008
These four pieces were done in 2007-8 after my first breast cancer diagnosis. In honor of Mattel’s recent conversation about the possibility of releasing a bald Barbie, I thought I’d put them out there again. I’m currently working on WholeBrainRadiation Barbie, Fasolodex Barbie, Metastatic Barbie, and Brain Met Barbie. The info about Ruth Handler still amazes me.
Things Happen (Espresso pot, spoon, one fallen and one upright cup)oil on birchwood board, 16″ x 24″, 2012. Painting #3 in the Live Your Life Series.
Live Your Life, #1 and #2, both 16″ x 24″, oil on birchwood board, 2011.
Wanting to badly to feel like me again, wanting to paint, and still very sick constantly, very tired and weak, but finally Live Your LIfe #1 with the mixer came easy and I worked for a few days on it, then #2 was a struggle….and then as I got sicker I couldn’t paint again in oil–I just didn’t have the juice. I love the first of these two paintings as much as anything I’ve ever painted, and I think they both speak to the experience of trying to regain one’s normal life with metastatic cancer, especially with brain mets. I am reminded of the Sesame Street song, One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is kinda the same.
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