Like a twister that tears the flesh of mother earth,

cancer is the turmoil that carries us and tears us apart both physically and emotionally for the chosen,

their families and friends.

My painting illustrates two partial figures.

My two aunts caught up in a twister. 

This journey illustrates three

leading cancers in women:

lung, breast and cervical cancer.

The figures that are looking away

represent the shame of their loss

that once made them whole.

The ribbon symbolizes the chosen

and the salvation of those

who have walked through the

Valley of Shadow of Death.