To Have and to Hold, In Sickness and in Health
The female body ravaged by breast cancer has become something which holds shame and a strong stigma within society. It is known to be a disease which eradicates femininity in its entirety. This photograph however, capture my mother and father in a loving embrace, completely contesting societal standards of female beauty and femininity as a whole. They not only challenge the constraints which are enforced on the disabled female form, but they seek to transform my mother’s debilitated body into something which can be exalted. These works celebrate survival, disability, and an emotional connection between a husband and wife which is often lost due to the gruelling and dehumanising process of breast cancer. My work aims to transform and engage with female body image in relation to a process which amputates femininity, and restores it through empowerment.
The female body ravaged by breast cancer has become something which holds shame and a strong stigma within society. It is known to be a disease which eradicates femininity in its entirety. This photograph however, capture my mother and father in a loving embrace, completely contesting societal standards of female beauty and femininity as a whole. They not only challenge the constraints which are enforced on the disabled female form, but they seek to transform my mother’s debilitated body into something which can be exalted. These works celebrate survival, disability, and an emotional connection between a husband and wife which is often lost due to the gruelling and dehumanising process of breast cancer. My work aims to transform and engage with female body image in relation to a process which amputates femininity, and restores it through empowerment.
