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stomach #6

1/9/2017

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by Marilyn Wann

​What if we saw as many images of stomachs as we see of hearts or brains? ​ Would we identify with this internal organ more? Are you your brain, your heart, your guts, your stomach?

Amid the ongoing terror of stomach amputation — so-called weight-loss surgery — would public opinion about this practice be different if we could see the damage that's done ​to otherwise healthy internal organs?

Here's hoping a stomach a day keeps the scalpel away...
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stomach #6
materials: upholstery leather and stuffing from the reclining chair used for 25 years by the artist's mother (deceased in 2015 at age 91; labelled fat much of her life; survivor of medical weight-loss advice including an 800-calorie/day diet during her pregnancy with the artist and a year-long 400-calorie/day OptiFast diet), whose death was precipitated by a fall and cracked ribs that she suffered in a doctor's weigh-in room; cashew.
photo: Marilyn Wann
Picture
stomach #6
materials: cashew, a favorite food of the artist's mother, hidden inside stomach #6
photo: Marilyn Wann
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Yabette Swank link
1/9/2017 07:08:41 pm

This is touching. and powerful. thank you.

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