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Exhibition - " My Healing Journey " (1995)

"My Healing Journey" was my first solo exhibition and it proved to be the jumping off point for my career. Both the entire exhibition and individual pieces have been exhibited widely and they helped to define me as an artist who is achieving personal growth and healing through creative explorations.

"In making the series of wallhangings which revisit my experience with breast cancer I found that I continued to heal. I was surprised at the range and intensity of emotions I experienced as I worked and again as I allowed the pieces to be seen. From this vantage point I believe that having breast cancer is the best thing that could have happened to me. It afforded me the opportunity to make significant changes in my life. I have reordered my priorities and I have a new appreciation for each day of my life. I look forward to many more years of my healing journey."

" T H E   R O L E
O F T H E   A R T I S T
I S    N O T   T O   F I N D
S O L U T I O N S , B U T
T O   C O M P E L   U S
T O L O V E   L I F E
I N A L L   I T S
C O U N T L E S S ,
I N E X H A U S T A B L E
M A N I F E S T A T I O N S "
Leo Tolstoy

" W H E N   T H E
D A N G E R   T O
T H E W I L L   I S
G R E A T E S T ,
A R T   A P P R O A C H E S
A S   A   S A V I N G
S O R C E R E R ,
E X P E R T
A T   H E A L I N G "
Frederich Nietzche

" W O R K   C O M E S
T O   T H E   A R T I S T
A N D   S A Y S ,
" H E R E   I   A M ,
S E R V E   M E . "
T H E   A R T I S T
M U S T   B E
O B E D I E N T   T O
T H E   W O R K "
Madeleine L'Engle

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