RESILIENCE

THE POWER OR ABILITY TO RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL FORM, TO RECOVER READILY FROM ILLNESS, DEPRESSION, ADVERSITY, OR THE LIKE; BUOYANCY.

My portfolio is an interpretation of a vision or maybe an epiphany I experienced during my recovery from cancer in 2006.

Toward the end of my treatment, I could barely find the strength to go on.  With the combination of Chemotherapy and the barbaric external burns from Radiation, it amazes me how much pain our human body can with stand.

During my evening salt bath, I remember staring into the water with tears rolling down my cheeks as I cried with pain and despair.  For some reason, I looked up and saw the most curious thing, a vision of two gardens.  On my left, a garden shadowed with darkness and silence, dying with disease and decay with no hope of survival.  On the right, rays of sunlight glistened through a beautiful, brightly coloured garden full of exotic flowers, songbirds and bees collecting pollen.  My tears of pain turned to tears of hope and joy.

I knew at that very moment everything was going to be okay.  This vision gave me the inner strength to fight my evil fate and go on to survive like my beautiful garden.