2024-25
Digitally Composed Photographs
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Artist Statement
A person with two different sets of DNA is called a chimera and I am one of them. In the summer of 2022, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia and in 2023 I received a bone marrow transplant from an anonymous donor to heal my blood. My donor is a healthy young man, so my blood and immune cells are now male, but the rest of my cells remain female. My cancer is in remission, but my body remains a battleground between the donated and my own cells. This comingling manifests in symptoms of graft-versus-host disease. In this series of images I manipulate and explore elements that resemble blood, cells, tissue, and other organic matter as I imagine and visualize the ongoing process of healing and growth in my body.