Drawing the Chicken 4: Art and Illness

Because the body never leaves you alone.

As I write, I am in the midst of a bit of a health scare. No, not scare, that’s the wrong word. It’s more of a new piece of information that needs to get interpreted and incorporated into my everyday.

I have lived most of my life with two major illnesses— a corneal dystrophy for which I have had an average of one eye surgery every year over 30 years, an…