Lift Your Eyes Gallery: The Art of Surviving Cancer
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Contact

Radioactive

12/22/2017

0 Comments

 
The first time I heard the song "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons was as I drove away from my first radiation appointment.  No kidding.  I was slowly recovering from chemo, bald, tired, finding that everything still tasted like metal and was just informed of  all the expected and potential side effects of radiation.  "I'm waking up to ash and dust; I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust; I'm breathing in the chemicals. This is it, the apocalypse. Welcome to the new age; I'm radioactive."  This painting does not hold a lot of subtle symbolism.  Radiation for breast cancer involves laying flat with arms in the posture shown here, and letting the machine do all the work.  The rhetoric is that radiation is no big deal compared to chemo  -----  which I did not find to be absolutely true.  Honestly they both suck; it is what it is.  This radioactive woman, however, holds a secret.  All of that yellow paint... glows in the dark. Ha!
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    I wear a lot of hats in life, encompassing a variety of roles and relationships.  I am becoming more comfortable with the whole "cancer survivor" hat, even finding silver linings in unexpected places ---  like adding artist to my self identity.  "Blogger" hadn't really appealed to me until I began getting requests to talk about what lies behind my art. So I'm going to give it a try.  If you have gotten to this page, you have probably noticed from my paintings that I am quite frank about my experiences.  Some of the images are stark and difficult to look at. To me, beautiful is not the same as pretty.  "Beautiful" encompasses complexity that can include pain, tragedy, and darkness.  Therefore there can be a strange beauty present in stark emotional and experiential truth.  I am a seeker of beauty within pain, and of the beauty that grows out of pain.  If you are too, we'll get along just fine. 

    Archives

    December 2017
    October 2017
    January 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Contact