How do you begin to write an artist statement about an awful disease? How do you put the pain of another person in your own words? This isn’t just a piece of art to drape on the wall, for an audience to gawk at. This is someone’s present life including their forever future. You can not simply contextualize a deteriorating brain into a stuffy statement. So where does that leave us? With an unwritten statement? Look at the scribbled words alongside the lesion-ridden brain. Those thoughts point the viewer to everything they lack to comprehend. Don’t listen to me, I have not endured what is exposed in the cotton cloth. See within the piece and understand the grief, anger, and suffering exhausting between each word.
my partner's MRI, cyanotype on cotton muslin