When chronic illness is such an abstract concept to the able-bodied person, how does one
bring awareness and understanding to the subject?
This series of work aims to make the invisible, visible and to bring fibromyalgia out of the
darkness and stigma created from years of misunderstanding, through fine art photographic
self-portraiture. This project tackles the preconceived ideas of what fibromyalgia and
chronic illness is, and what disability can look like, a disabled person is not always a body in
a wheelchair, a disabled person can look just like me.
This series has been inspired by many artists using their own illness and experience, as a
subject and their art, as therapeutic, particularly Jo Spence.
bring awareness and understanding to the subject?
This series of work aims to make the invisible, visible and to bring fibromyalgia out of the
darkness and stigma created from years of misunderstanding, through fine art photographic
self-portraiture. This project tackles the preconceived ideas of what fibromyalgia and
chronic illness is, and what disability can look like, a disabled person is not always a body in
a wheelchair, a disabled person can look just like me.
This series has been inspired by many artists using their own illness and experience, as a
subject and their art, as therapeutic, particularly Jo Spence.
