Content Warning!: Blood
This was a visual reflection of this week’s reading. To be honest, the readings were a lot to take in, and I did not find myself articulating and pin pointing specific thoughts and comments. Therefore, I thought a visual reflection of how I felt was the most accompanying method I could use. This illustration attempts to show the idea of an ’embodied story.’ It shows identities within their bodies getting erased in lots of medical narratatives; who’s story does it become once an individual’s identities are stripped away?
It also shows the incompleteness one may feel after going through what ‘modern’ medicine offers. The figure in the illustration is, quite literally, in complete. Her insides are exposed, and she leaks blood. There are footsteps all over her body. All of these elements unify to show the puzzled feeling one may feel after being utilized as a body of a patient. There is a sense of nothingness left with her. She keeps questioniong, who am I? What am I?