...using animal imagery to represent 3 human illnesses

Serpent: cervical radiculopathy (neck pain)
Wolf: lupus erythematosis
Tiger: aggressive cancer




1st image: taming chronic pain (serpent) with visual imagery (apple)

2nd image: the word “lupus” means wolf. The image is a wolf spider with a wolfs head and a lupus (wolf mask) rash

3rd image: a young woman with an aggressive and invasive
breast cancer (tiger) holding an infant (like a phantom limb) that she won’t live long enough to bear.