artitudes

Donimo

Grind
mixed media

Twenty years ago, my chronic pain began, and I was drawn into the sterile medical world, with its focus on dissecting and labeling my complex conditions. Outside of the medical world, I have been surrounded by prescriptions for wellness from family and friends, acquaintances and strangers.In my life and art, I work to resist the displacement of self that results from masking the harshness and complexity of lived experience with cold medical terminology or reductive well-wishing. This work is part of my process of connecting with the material reality of my disabilities.

Miriam Friedberg