Keep Going
Another piece from my Connection Series. In this series I use images of my body, bones and pieces I no longer have, or what has been put in its place. As a young child, one form of treatment for my JRA was to inject gold into my body weekly (this had to be injected in my hip area .. I did not have JRA in my hips) the drug worked and then it didn’t. Doctors would always stop my treatment when I was showing signs of remission, but I would flare up soon after and each time worse than before …and we would have to start treatment all over again… this went on for many years even into high school. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with a gold mixture. I like to think that is what they were trying to do for me. I no longer have my hips. Remembering how much pain they caused me, how much grief & sadness, falling down unexpectedly in the middle of an intersection, or getting stuck on the subway stairs in rush hour..is something that is