"The process of transplantation is a grueling one- demanding
physical participation in a battery of tests and procedures as well
as an emotional commitment to oneself and acceptance of the
unknown. This is a beautiful catalogue of stories, photographs and
drawings that tell Ella's story of chronic illness and her journey
towards transplant. Throughout this process she demonstrates a
remarkable spirit and strength despite loss, illness and ever
present chance of dying. Through her art and words she provides a
window into her soul as she faces her own mortality with grace,
maturity and humor." ---Ariana Rose, Nurse Practitioner "The
remarkable hospital sketchbook of artist Ella Watson chronicles her
two year crisis battling end-stage liver failure. A young woman in
need of an organ transplant, with no insurance, no money, no
parents, no safety net: in drawing after luminous drawing she tells
the story. It is a graphic tour de force. Her body inside and out,
breached and cut open, perforated with tubes and pumps, fever
dreams in emergency rooms, portraits of fellow patients,
life-giving nurses, latex- gloved hands, monitors, pills, syringes,
clocks (above all clocks): a gurney-eye tour of intensive care. She
wins passage through the disintegrating U.S. social welfare system,
through the veil of pain and time, doing the thing she knows best:
drawing and writing for her life. Her eye and steady hand miss
nothing. Ella captures -- for her doctors, for her brother and
sisters, for us, and for art -- the misery and triumph of the life
urge." ---Elizabeth King, Sculpture Department, Virginia
Commonwealth University
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