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Tanya Paterson

"Suffering for Art"

"Suffering for Art" by Tanya Paterson

Surrey, BC, Canada

photography, pencil, digital manipulation

717 pixels x 538 pixels

The pain of rheumatoid arthritis can make it feel like if I move my hand while drawing, everything will disintegrate. The flames represent searing hot pain in the joints, the cracking represents the slow destruction of my body by this disease. The pain, like my drawings, becomes my world.

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