This is a mono print I made early in the progression of my auto immune disease. At that point we didn't really know what was going on with me but it was very evident that it was something auto immune. This print symbolizes the feelings I was experiencing at that time. I chose the giraffe because its head is so far away from its body. I was feeling very much like that having a mind that wanted to do so many things with a body that physically could not keep up. I used the continent of Africa to represent the things I was feeling like I wanted to run away from. I had such strange things happening to my body and at times I wanted to get away from it. I had many goals I was striving for and these ailments just kept getting in my way making it very difficult to feel satisfied evcn when I was successful. The colors in the background are broken and faded. I also used a layering of blocked shapes to represent those obstacles that seemed to come from nowhere. This print for me represents the first time I was willing to let myself recognize that I had something that was not going away and I was going to need to not run away from it but fight it.