Summer 2011
During the summer of 2011, I had a trip to the emergency room for severe abdominal pain. Painfully convinced the pain was from an exercise routine I just tried, I had refused to believe the pain and fever I experienced was caused by any thing serious. However, the final diagnosis was an ovarian cyst rupture. *
My art is often a manifestation of all the feelings, emotions, and darker aspects of soul and myself. The creature you have before you is a result of my wacom tablet and Photoshop Elements 4.0. After hours of researching the ovarian cyst diagnosis and talking with parents who were for the most part unsupportive of conventional treatment, I desperately needed an outlet for the sake of my own sanity and emotions. This is my visual representation of Ovarian Cysts. I thought that maybe if I gave my parents a creature representation of what I went through it would help them to understand how I feel a little bit more. For the most part, I find creatures to convey a mood in a much louder way than scientific diagrams on the computer screen.
* During a woman’s menstrual cycle, a sac forms on the ovaries for an egg to develop in. When the egg is released, the sac goes away, however, when the egg is not released and the sac keeps growing, you have an ovarian cyst. If the sac of fluid pops and the liquid is just floating in your abdomen, you have an ovarian cyst rupture. Even a couple drops of this fluid can cause a sever stomachache.
Creature 1, Summer 2011, Photoshop & Wacom Tablet, 8.5" x 11"
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