Skin
Images used by the artist include Portrait No. 40, Portrait No. 48, and Portrait No. 47 by Lam Qua. Images used courtesy of the Peter Parker Collection of the Whitney Medical Library at Yale University Library.
Images used by the artist include Portrait No. 40, Portrait No. 48, and Portrait No. 47 by Lam Qua. Images used courtesy of the Peter Parker Collection of the Whitney Medical Library at Yale University Library.
Restitution stories attempt to outdistance mortality by rendering illness
On two separate occasions, an ambulance whisked my wife’s sister from
I knew it was coming. After my morning walk, I sat down and ran my fingers through my hair—and ended up with a handful. Right on schedule, Day 14 following my first chemo treatment for stage lll inflammatory breast cancer. Taking what remained of my shoulder-length hair and cutting off what I could with a …
Spiders are living in the bathtub
I’ve just returned from the memorial service with my son Otto; he had
bedsheets and socks on their feet and wrappers strewn like cigarette butts on
I cannot find or see what I seek. Blind, I
At times, we are lost in a sea of thought. We swim in new ideas and warm,