Drawings, Paintings and Mixed Media
dependent-woman.jpg "<b>In(sulin)dependent Woman</b><br> Watercolor, colored pencil and syringes on paper <br> 10 x 12 inches<br><br>This piece is a commentary on societal conventions of 'beauty.' People don't typically associate a young, healthy-looking, attractive woman with diabetes and syringes. Because of this norm and the fact that most of society is not desensitized to needles, blood, etc., people, particularly women, with type 1 diabetes are at high risk for feeling self-conscious of their physiology and their bodies. Also, my work reveals that people with type 1 diabetes require not just one, but multiple insulin injections every day.")
