Acrylic on paper (1994)

Despite advances in treatments for breast cancer, many women are horrified to find that their disease returns, sometimes as an ulcerating wound on their chests. The woman in the painting is anguished at the betrayal of her body; daily, she must endure the horror of cleaning and bandaging her weeping sores.

Sources/ Acknowledgements

Figure: photograph by the artist of an Egyptian statue in the British Museum