Conquering Cancer: Facing Christ Collage

This past May I was diagnosised with Breast Cancer. I will be fine and live through it but I wanted to do a bit of a visual rendition of the battle with Breast Cancer. I knew from the first time I heard cancer my life had changed. I don't want to get all dramatic here, and maybe that affect is genetic response, maybe it is a matter of culture. But I think those that have been there will understand what I am saying. That said I have struggled to keep it all in perspective, because the God I know and Love is huge and cancer is microscopic in comparison. It is easy to say, but another thing entirely to walk that out. Fear erodes, and corrupts faith like nothing else and over the years I have worked out a systematic way of dealing with it. Brace and Face. I brace for the fear bc I know it will be coming, Turn my back to fear and my face to God. This is my duty, This is My choice and might I add my only Hope and I believe God is right there waiting to see my face. Not easy but I am getting better at it. So this is how I started this journey (I hate that word...do I look like a hiker?lol) and Jesus is faithful, and compassionate to respond. It isn't over yet, I am just now finally going to get my radiation treatments (25 in all) under way. God willing Treatment will be all over come Oct 15th. It has been his battle right from the get go, My job is to show up and stand up and look up until it is over. Without further ado this is an original collage comprised mostly of my drawings (hand and cancer cell rendition) and 18th century anatomic drawings and decorative papers. "Conquering Cancer: Facing Christ