Day #8, Monday November 25, 2013 from What’s in My Drawers.
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| The World as It is Acrylic, collage, colored pencil, ink and silver pen on cotton rag hand made paper with inclusions 16″ x 20″ ©NanciHersh $200.00 |
The World as It is incorporates pages from the found book, The Conquest of Fear. A visual journal, each panel is an emotional response as I came to terms with a genetic breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. The hand of a clock references the cell mutations as a ticking time bomb in my body, as well as, keeping track of hours, minutes. And remembering to stay in the moment.
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| The World as It is, detail, right panel |
It is also about wanting to feel whole despite surgery, and learning to accept and love my body and my situation as it is.
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| The World as It is, detail, left panel |
I am not sure what I have hanging from a thread from my ring finger. It feels like a hopeful talisman.
It must be powerful, gratefully I am still here.
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