ARTIST STATEMENT
Sometimes I feel like my family life is caged within a medical bubble. In this series of drawings pill capsules provided an opportunity to metaphorically represent my experience of feeling trapped inside medical uncertainty. I’m fascinated by the juxtaposition of perfection and sudden change in life, and I explored this through the contrast of bold words and soft pencil. My journey of creation and personal struggle has brought me to appreciate that everyone’s reality is their normal and everyone’s normal looks different.
ARTWORK PROCESS
This series stemmed from experimentation with a micro-photograph of a pill capsule overlaying instructions on my prescription medication. A transition of the representation to graphite mark-making created a softness, metaphorically representing the fragility and temporality of health. Words evoking memories regarding the nuances of life inside the medical bubble were assigned fonts that, to me, enhance the metaphor.