Abstract
Three mixed media, acrylic, ink, and airbrush paintings explore an image-guided interventional radiological procedure and hopeful prognosis.
Figure 1. Holler
Holler is an emotional tapestry, centered on the artist’s receipt of an initial prognosis and her preoperative experience. Heavily influenced by abstract expressionism—known for its emphasis on spontaneous, gestural expression—Holler suggests a battlefield of emotions, where color tonality is key: deep blues suggest introspection, while vibrant pink suggests urgency of an illness narrative unfolding. Each brush stroke is a whisper, perhaps, of fear, hope, and resilience.
Figure 2. Wires and Whispers
Wires suggest sound waves resonating, as if from a musical instrument, to transcend their physical origins. Pastel and dusky colors might evoke a viewer’s sense of familiarity with hues of everyday life. Markings on the canvas, akin to whispers, symbolize the broader connections wires serve to forge between illness and healing.
The First Tonal Imprint exemplifies a technique of layering paint, suggesting the precision sought by interventional radiology, in which a human body is penetrated without surgical incision for purposes of healing. Shapes within the painting gently unfold: dilation balloons are attached to catheters, and stents keep vessels open during procedures. Coils have a unique representational role here, too, suggesting an interplay of restriction and expansion as a radiologist manipulates vessels at different stages of a procedure. Filters on one large vessel—the inferior vena cava, in particular—in the painting represent a bridge between containment of and liberation from illness.
Figure 3. The First Tonal Imprint
