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Leukemia
Four Colors of Leukemia
"Four Colors of Leukemia" was accepted into the
juried Tulsa Invitational Gallery where it was purchased by the Good Samaritan
Growth
Center in Bartleville, Oklahoma as an inspirational piece for its new Cancer
Research Center. The painting was completed using only four colors of paint,
yellow, two reds and blue (plus white) to represent four stages of the disease.
The center portrait shows a healthy and happy sixteen year old.
The upper right-hand portrait shows her trying on a wig after her hair fell
out. In the left-hand portrait the disease and wig
have
become
a burden,
a sadness not even a
hat could hide. Acceptance
of her baldness, of her hospitalization and of leukemia is shown in the lower-right
hand portrait. A copy of “Four
Colors of Leukemia” also hangs on the wall of 4 Henson Tower at the
Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
Dance with Leukemia
This spirited sixteen year old defied leukemia and the
doctor’s orders
to dance and celebrate at her first highschool prom.
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