Cancer is a highly charged, emotional subject with many contextual layers: societal, political, metaphoric, economic. Yet,
ultimately, it is supremely personal.
In addressing the issue I have tied to create a
dialogue beyond the confines of the cancer world. Using an intimate setting – box interiors that are viewed individually at eye level – I have sought to
bring the viewer into that personal world.
Built from door skin, the boxes are a metaphor
for the hastily built, fragile “new” housing that is required when illness
suddenly becomes part of our lives. The body we had relied on deserts us. The
familiar is now suspect; nothing is sure. We find a plethora of information
with no answers. Trust erodes, supplanted by uncertainties that dominate our
physical and psychological lives.
Each person responds differently. These boxes
are my responses reflected through my imagery and words along the poems of two
northwest poets and myself.
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