“I’m just going to make a small incision…”
Gabrielle Ione Hickmon
Paper pulp, rusted and ribbed metal
2023
I'm not sure if any incision is ever "small." But, before I had my lumpectomy, I remember my surgeons describing the incisions they planned to make in my breast, armpit, and stomach that way. This work is about that. Those small incisions had a large, lingering impact.
Installation Views
Pictured next to Maddie Alexander’s Standards of Care
Photos by Kate Stone at Mudhouse Residency’s 2023 Third Session Exhibition
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