The importance of dualism / images by Darian Goldin Stahl ; text by Devan Stahl.

Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta, Canada, 2014.

15 unnumbered pages (in folder) : black and white illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm (in folder 23 x 28 cm)

Photo-intaglio and beeswax. Gampi silk tissue paper (double layered for the cover, single layered for the pages), Gambin etching ink, raw beeswax, white caran d'ache crayon, black cotton thread.

"This work concentrates on the complex emotions that accompany a medical diagnosis of chronic illness and the status of our fallible bodies. I am most interested in the psychological schism between of what the body is able to perceive and what is revealed by internal medical scans. I aim to restore this fractured sense of identity by joining the patient's voice with her medical scans to rehumanize their anonymous and alienating qualities. This arts-based research is a collaborative cycle of informing and reconstructing identity with my sister, Devan Stahl, who is a Bioethics Professor, hospital chaplain, and has multiple sclerosis... The MRI machine gathers photographs of my sister's inner anatomy in slices. Likewise, this book moves through her narrative on thin, transparent pages. The buildup of imagery and words seen through the pages points to the overwhelming amount of uneasy thought that comes in a moment of diagnosis. The final expression of our partnership holds her narrative, internal anatomy, and skin's surface together for the first time. Our voices combine through printmaking to construct this book, which is the amalgamation of our collaborative enfeavors to giev context to the medicalized body."--From artist.