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...
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...
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
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
stomach #6
materials: cashew, a favorite food of the artist's mother, hidden inside stomach #6
photo: Marilyn Wann
materials: cashew, a favorite food of the artist's mother, hidden inside stomach #6
photo: Marilyn Wann
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