I have spent the last few days sifting through the hundreds on hundreds of photos I took through the first steps on our transplant journey. I deleted over 800 so you can imagine how may I have - where would I be without digital photography?! I am going to get about 500 printed so I can begin to sort them into the stages of our journey and some of the themes that we carried and that carried us along the way. From this, I will begin to re-tell our story and take some of those themes to develop other bodies of work that are more losely by our transplant journey. I am really excited about this. There is so much material, so much inspiration and scope to create.
Looking through all the pre-transplat photos of William can be really rather distressing. He looked so vulnerable throughout and so ill in the last few weeks. This image is one that I find rather haunting. His face is so serene yet distressed at the same time. I think it reflects our period of waiting very well. Waiting will certainly be a major theme in my work.
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