In 2018, I was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive kidney cancer, Papillary Type II. Five years ago, there was generally a six month prognosis for this type of disease. I’ve managed to survive a year and a half so far with the support many lovely people and some miracle-like medications.

The drawings here are to be read left to right like a book (opening the first image in carousel mode – clicking- helps to facilitate this reading). The subject matter is my cancer treatment, a daily pill that I take in the morning. The drawings depict my imagination of how this treatment works without any oncology knowledge beyond the bits I discussed with the Oncologist when I first went on the drug.

I wanted for both posterity and legacy to make a record (a chart) of my imagination’s narrative response to the world of terminal illness I was suddenly thrust into, and how I personally interpret and even protect myself from the endless flow of real results that arise from my circumstances.

These drawings made their live debut at the 2019 Death Faire in Pittsboro, NC.