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HOW DOES ONE BEGIN TO HEAL?
When living in a disembodied society, collectively disregarding our body’s needs and desires, how does one resurrect the deep radical self-love that is necessary to surviving disease? Self-love aside, how does one even begin to understand their own body?
Especially, when everything within one’s cells, one’s muscles, one’s stomach, one’s colon, one’s rectum, one’s flesh, feels like it is falling apart…
HOW DOES ONE BEGIN TO HEAL?
How does one begin to feel whole when all they want is to crawl out of their own skin and find a new body to inhabit? Though beyond one’s own comprehension of their disease, DIS-EASE… HOW DOES ONE BEGIN TO HEAL… when access to basic medical care is an expensive product on the market and not a given human right? HOW DOES ONE BEGIN TO HEAL…? I… emerging out of an assertive crisis with Ulcerative Colitis… once again ask: HOW DOES ONE BEGIN TO HEAL?
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Title: ULCERATIVE COLITIS-ASSERTIVE CRISIS by Penny Shapiro set to Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Singers: No. 3. Courante
Created and Filmed by: Penny Shapiro
Edited by: Penny Shapiro
Performances by: Penny Shapiro
Featured Clip from the documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1:23:50-1:24:03)
Music: Partita for 8 Singers: No. 3. Courante by Caroline Shaw, Roomful of Teeth, and Brad Wells
FEATURED DRESS PAINTED BY PENNY SHAPIRO - PHOTOGRAPHED BY CARSON STACHURA