On 20.Sep.2007, I was totally shocked when knowing that my best friend got Lymphoma, and the situation was not optimistic, she had to be hospitalized and do chemotherapy once every three weeks, over the next 6 months, we didn't contact with each other anymore, she vanished from the world and my life. She must be so hard and painful, I really could understand and want to help her.
Actually this was one of my MA project, which is about memory, and according to this painful experience, I made this collage painting. The person on the left stands for my friend, since she has lost all of her hair and become extremely weak, I used fire to make some patterns on paper, then collected them to make a shape of human being, for the cancer cells, the meaning is not only about the disease, but also her scare of death. Well, I didnt make this to be a sorrow painting, I want to give her hope, so I cut some hand and smiling face pictures from magazines and then added them to the important parts of the body which play a role in sustaining. And on the right corner of the painting, there's the progress of a sapling growing up which stands for the hope that she could recover from the pain.
