Aaliyah Stapleton

This work, comprised of drawings and stop-motion video, explores chronic pain caused by endometriosis. Represented through bright, vibrant colour, literal and metaphorical depictions of pain and discomfort are glaring and impossible to ignore, in direct contrast to the real-life invisible illness. The distorted figurative forms are represented in the fluorescent and neon colours of childhood. Reflecting on a childhood cut short by the symptoms of this disease, these drawings represent the unseen side of invisible illness in adolescence. Metaphor replaces the literal depictions of pain within the video piece. Common metaphorical analogies are employed to represent the symptoms of endometriosis, widely reported by the 1 in 10 women affected by this disease worldwide.

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