Perfect freedom of a swallow tailed gull soaring over the rugged coast of a remote Galapagos coast.

Throughout my diagnosis and treatment, I would daily begin the journey with a sketch in my sketchbook recording my feelings, concerns, joys, hopes, fears and determination to be a victor over Breast Cancer. In this sketch, completed following my chemo and radiation, I convey my feelings of being &quot;the girl in the glass jar.&quot; My life is more private than the entire experience afforded me from the double mastectomy to radiation, etc. My life was wide open. Yet in this reveal, there is a bird of hope. It is the hope in my art then and now, that keeps me going.

"Girl In the Jar"

As a child, with a scarf covering my bald head, I managed to keep smile on my face despite my cancer and the symptoms it brought with it. I had a brain tumor at age nine, and I kept smiling, wanting to keep up my parents morale, not knowing how close to death I was. The artwork is a pencil drawing.

Up up and away

By LIZA SANCHEZ

July 22nd, 2019

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