Healing Thoughts Prevail Print

This photograph is a series of four distinct conceptual works expressing my feelings about being diagnosed with breast cancer and the procedural treatment process that follows. This image is from a new series of photographs captured at the San Diego Botanic Gardens Lightscape event (December 2022). While photographing, I had no idea that several of my photographs would powerfully articulate the journey in front of me. In a couple of the images, the outline of a breast emerged. The saturated colors support each image's movement and encapsulate hidden feelings that preceded and followed my recent diagnosis. The other two images speak to the transient states of clarity, awareness, and self-affirmation that seem to waft just above the surface cloud of emotions or like to hide deep inside the layers of dense emotions. If you look closely at "Healing Thoughts Prevail," you can see the shape of a shadowy face and torso. I see this form as the "hidden self" we all seek to heal and repair through spiritual meditation and conscious contemplation. I hope that other cancer patients and their care providers have the same visceral experience I had when looking at these finished images. The following four images work together as pairings of two or a complete series of four... Protecting The Light Within 1, Healing Thoughts Prevail, Breast Cancer Circle of Healing 1, Breast Cancer Emotions 1