SICK ART

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How do we measure our health?

​How do we measure our wellness?

How do we measure our levels of sickness?

​What does one do with over 300 used plastic pill bottles? 

What does one do with over 150 empty vials & syringes?

What does one do with the remnants of $100,000 worth of medications and procedures?

What can one do while in 5 hour long chemo treatments - a total of 60 times (300 hours)?

Why do we manufacture strong containers that carry medicine to weak bodies?

Why can't we focus on healing instead of fighting insurance claims and killing ourselves at work in an effort to stay alive one more day?

How do we tell the story of our struggles?
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How do we heal?

Learn to love trash.

Start to refuse. 

Pill Bottle AS Paint Brush 

Pill Bottle As Paint Brush - with Minis

"No Big Deal" - 2023, 8x10 framed canvas (60 total pieces in series)

Eye refuse

Pill Bottle - Mirror

EYe Love Trash - Photo Series

Pill Bottle - Glasses 

B-12 Battles - Sculpture

​A pernicious anemia POV.

Pill Bottle self Portrait - Sculpture

Medical LuchaDor - Mixed Media

PLanks a lot - Durational performance art

"Planking is an activity consisting of lying in a face down position, sometimes in an unusual or incongruous location. The palms of the hands are typically touching the sides of the body and the toes are typically touching the ground. Some players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play. The term planking refers to mimicking a wooden plank. Planking can include lying flat on a flat surface, or holding the body flat while it is supported in only some regions, with other parts of the body suspended. Many participants in planking have photographed the activity in unusual locations and have shared such pictures through social media."
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Los Angeles, CA, USA (Hollywood Bowl - Diana Ross Concert)
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Pasadena, CA, USA
While the "planking fad" became popular in 2011, my first plank was in 2012 at the Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, CA) and I have never stopped since.

It would seem I plank as much as I sit in a chemo chair for infusions. So it's the "yin" to my "yang" and my response to wanting to live each day to the fullest. 

#PlanksALotHERE - Participatory Art Project

Help keep planking accessible to me by literally taking me to new places and new heights beyond my own imagination. (Click HERE to see examples)

​Instructions
  • Place a Planking FTP on top of an item that then makes it look as if I am actually planking it with my body. 
    • Examples: Place the magnet on a photo so that it looks like I am planking a house, a building, or someone’s head. Place a tattoo on your upper lip so that I am planking the lip. Place a tattoo on the side of your foot and then place your foot on a rock so that I am planking the rock. Place a sticker on top of another sticker, on a sign that has lines I can plank or on your car near the bumper or above the license plate. Place the window cling strategically in an area where from different angles or orientations I can plank many things over time: Place it on a window in your house so that it looks like I am planking surrounding rooflines, hills, or electrical lines. Place is on a car side window so that it appears as if I am planking surrounding cars, passengers, or billboards.
  • Take a photo of your tattoo, sticker, magnet, keychain, pin, etc and email it to [email protected] or post photos on social media and tag them #PlanksALotHere.
Thank you for helping to physically show that I belong anywhere and everywhere. I am forever grateful for your willingness to be an ally to this disabled artist and their foolish dreams to make you giggle and feel some joy that maybe has been hard for you to access lately too.

#planksalotminime - Photography

In October 2023, the artist made a 1/84 3D photo model of themselves in a planking position to illustrate how disabled folks often feel compelled to make themselves small in order to live in a non-adaptive world, while also showing how their body is also a container and holder of needed medicine for managing chronic illness.