One in Eight

One in Eight, Acrylic, rubber stamp, collage on paper, 15”x12”

One in Eight was created in response to a breast cancer diagnosis after a routine mammogram. The name refers to the statistic that, in the United States, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Amid a whirlwind of appointments, tests, surgery, and the emotional upheaval that followed, the studio became a sanctuary—a space to process this initiation into a sisterhood that, for me, held an even deeper resonance when I tested positive for the BRCA 2 gene mutation.