CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: SCAR TISSUE

I don't know how many of you are artists or claim to create artwork. As a full-time teacher, I find it challenging to fit all my ideas into the time I have available. Consequentially ideas often take weeks, months or even years to fully form. This has been the case with my current developing project 'Scar Tissue', which has taken years to evolve. 

UPDATE: Please take my survey even if you don't have prose/ poetry to share. your answers can help - feel free to share whatever you're comfortable with. Take part HERE

After a period of stress and illness a few years ago I really began to connect with who I was, what made me, me. It was a painful time, but the experiences I had have formed me as a person. I began to talk to friends who had been through other life-changing events. Quite a few had had life-changing surgery, some approached it with a positive outlook - how it had made life better, where others felt a sense of anger, emptiness and loss of identity.

I became increasingly interested in how the scars we carry become part of us and help tell our stories - both good and bad. Some of my recent experiments try to explore my perspective on this. However, I really would like to push this further and incorporate stories and poetry, from others who have gone through/ or are going through this type of experience, within my artwork.

As I have just undergone (minor) surgery, I thought it was time to push and develop this project.  I'm looking at how the scars we have are evidence of the healing process, but sometimes our scars are welcomed and sometimes they are hated, depending on our circumstances, each of us responds to our scars and the events surrounding them in different ways.

If you would like to be a collaborator on this project and share your stories/ poems which would be combined with visual artwork or would like to know more, please do get in touch or share with anyone you know who might be interested.

(NB: All texts will only be used for the purposes of this project only and not shared in any other way without the express permission of the author)