RT @Markagilbert: When I met Lisa to continue with her portrait, "I greeted her in the same waiting room where her surgeon met her. My stud…
When I met Lisa to continue with her portrait, "I greeted her in the same waiting room where her surgeon met her. My studio was in the Head and Neck Cancer Clinic, a tiny windowless postal room containing only an easel and a chair." @taosinstitute https://
"As Lisa sat with her experiences, time and our connection folded them into her portrait." @Markagilbert recounts the experience of working with Lisa, a patient-sitter experiencing the uncertainties of tongue cancer. https://t.co/0dzs8nAZS0
Lisa contrasted feeling comfortable during portrait sessions with feeling anxious in the face of persistent scanning for clinical problems. "[T]o just sit here and be still…. It was still kind of refreshing." https://t.co/StUb8MLReg https://t.co/Bux38GOE