Horizontal
Woman This is an attempt to visually depict, through a series of photographs, the invisible geography and hard-to-describe experiences of Chronic Pain which are so eloquently described in Suzanne E. Bergers book Horizontal Woman, (Houghton Mifflin, NY, 1996). I draw, also from my personal experience living with chronic, intractable pain. I have used dolls as subjects in my photographs; their facial expressions dont change; they are emotionally neutral, and they can be manipulated. My goal is to address an acute need to educate and raise awareness of the serious problem of under-treatment and mistreatment of Chronic Pain by the medical community, the American legal system and society. |