Pain Is Beautiful :-): spinal cord injury

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e enjte, 14 qershor 2007

Self portrait of a regular Jane, me, caregiver of husband with RSDS/CRPS, spinal cord injuries.

Artist: Radene Marie-Cook (California)

Mixed media artist, these two are regarding her spinal cord injuries.

Sometimes I picture the pain — soggy, moldy, dark or perhaps ashy, like those alarming pictures of smokers' lungs. - Melanie Thernstrom in NYT article "My Pain, My Brain" 2006
Art arrives at the sites of agony; art agonizes there. And art keeps us going, in our wounded state. - Nigel Spivey in Enduring Creation: Art, Pain and Fortitude (2001)
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint. - Frida Kahlo
She is not quite what you would call refined, she is not quite what you would call unrefined, she is the kind of person that keeps a parrot. -Mark Twain