Story
Size: Approx 130cm high x 62cm wide
Materials: cardboard, bones, wire
Price: €100
We tend to think of bones as inert and structural. They are some of the last things to decompose and resurface from the past to tell us a story about the person they came from. They tell us of battles and disease, age and diet. But what are they like in the living?
In 2003, my friend caught a virus which destroyed her bone marrow and she had to go through chemotherapy before she could undergo marrow transplant from her brother. The steroids that she was on to stabilise her condition also caused damage to her joints. She had a hip replacement when only in her twenties. What do her bones say now? What will they say in a decade or two? When the strong is damaged, will the flexible manage to hold everything together?
In 2003, my friend caught a virus which destroyed her bone marrow and she had to go through chemotherapy before she could undergo marrow transplant from her brother. The steroids that she was on to stabilise her condition also caused damage to her joints. She had a hip replacement when only in her twenties. What do her bones say now? What will they say in a decade or two? When the strong is damaged, will the flexible manage to hold everything together?
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