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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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REBECCA HORN / "MEASURE BOX" / 1970 @ STUTTGART, STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART [metal sculpture | 194.5 x 90 x 90 cm.]

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“Biosphere 3” by Kyle Thompson

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Cy Twombly, Bacchus, for the "Safety Curtain" project at the Vienna State Opera, 2010.

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A.F. Vandevorst: Arnhem Mode Biennale (2011)

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Pia Männikkö

Déjà Vu IV, 2011

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Mel Bochner, To Count: Intransitive, (soap on window; size determined by installation), 1972 [© Mel Bochner]

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fauna - andré romāo + pedro lapa (2019)

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"INFLATABLE SCULPTURE" K. P. BREHMER | AUGENFILM, 1967

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sigalit landau - gabriele horn + ruth ronen (2008)

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“The Patient” (2021)

Handmade paper, monotype, and found object installation

In the context of medicine, what does it mean to be born “different? How is the helpless body of the deformed, defective, or debilitated patient regarded by the doctor? Is it tragedy from the beginning? Is it the justification for a benevolent surgeon’s science experiments? Contending with questions about my own medical history, the Patient asks: what does it look like when your body isn’t your own? How does it feel?

Viewers were encouraged to enter past the gallery's glass partition and handle the folder of documents, which contained copies of medical records of consultations, physical exams, and surgical procedures that I experienced from ages 4 to 6. On the cover and nestled between the pages of documents are a series of monotypes responding to the events.

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Leandro Erlich: swimming pool (1999)

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Chiharu Shiota: Conversations Between Others (2023)

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Ughhhh #painsomnia sucks. My nerves are on fire and I just can't get comfortable. If you're awake and struggling too, know you're not alone 💜

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Y'all, mega shout out to anyone else who's utterly exhausted of having to play ✨medical detective✨

Obv I'm grateful to have access to medical care in the first place, but I wish I could take a lil holiday from the brain-labour of it all y'know?

The late nights reading research papers to pull together theories, digging through groups for doctor recs, articulating to specialists with outdated knowledge, figuring out connections between all the different conditions, strategizing around medical fatphobia, transphobia, and ableism, and generally trying to problem-solve in the face of ever-declining cognitive capacity.

(Brb, gonna go daydream about a magical world where this specific type of labour isn't mine to carry 🪄😌💭)

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it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)

every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat

sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive

this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions