3rd Treatment

3rd Treatment

Painting, Human figure, Oil, 45.7x61cm
The title refers to the chemotherapy session for breat cancer that follows complete hair loss, usually around day 17, after the first two treaments. I wanted the painting to lack any specific attitude - such as anger or terror - that might automatically be imagined with a cancer diagnosis and this stripping away of vanity and shields. I

"3rd Treatment" isn’t intended to shock, but to try to shed some light on this usually hidden reality through responses that are visceral and immediate.

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Alireza Ghaderi
12 years ago
Alireza Ghaderi Artist, Graphic artist
I can fill well!
my wife passed all treatment steps.
those were so bitter, painful and tragic. For her and for me...!
this work is my life in this 7 past years.
thanks Julie
LELIO ZUCCALA'
12 years ago
i like it!

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