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ARTWORK
ARTIST: MONIKA
"BODY ON THE TABLE"
I wanted to draw my body in the form of a stick-figure on the VCUG table. I was surprised to find that even drawing my lower body and arms and legs triggered and stressed me. So I ended up drawing only the parts I was comfortable with. That's why the painting looks the way it does. All you see is my head and torso. That’s all that’s left. They are black as coal – as they have been burned to death in the hellfire of this procedure.
"THE DOOR"
This is the door of the VCUG room. It was the most important thing to me, because it meant exit and salvation. I fixed it with my eyes. That door was the goal, my goal. So incredible close and yet SO EXTREMELY unreachable…
ARTIST: JULIA
DUBLIN, IRELAND
A NOTE FROM THE ARTIST
When I sat down with my grief, paper and a pencil to process my VCUG trauma, I didn’t think, I just drew. This curious sketch came out of me. I know that the floating little girl with the ponytail is me and I believe the sinister silhouette on top of the stairs represents the doctors who hurt me or perhaps my fear of future doctors in adulthood who may not even be planning to hurt me. She floats like a ghost detached from her body to have the strength to climb the stairs to what is waiting for her.
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