Thursday, December 3, 2009

Breast Trek


            
This one is about Burka Women heading to Australia...
the land of cupcakes with cherries on top, or sand dunes with cherries on top...
or the land where the body is less covered in public...
less covered in the sun despite the lack of ozone...
all these things were in my mind as I painted Breast Trek. 
I finished up wondering about the stats regarding number of Iraqi women with breast cancer compared with Australian women.
In Australia, one in nine women will be diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 85. 
In the Middle East, there are no statistics that I can research, 
as breast cancer is still largely seen as shameful and taboo in the fundamentalist Islamic world.

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