Artist Statement

My illnesses are all connected and intertwined. They are confusing and do not have any definite answers or cures. The circulating immune complexes are free-floating dangers on paths of destruction throughout my body like swirls in this painting. Pretty psychedelic almost. Not sure where the illnesses will take me next. The depression from the constant pain and fear looks like this painting. The ironic thing is that the colors are pretty and brilliant because I choose to see my body that way despite the ugliness of the diseases. I have the diseases. I am not the diseases.