When Grace added this photo to her flickr she said that she didn't have a story for it. When I saw it, I instantly knew the story behind it. As someone who is prone to addictions, I know what they can do to a life. They take you over like a cancer and they spread and they spread. They break you down till your the ghost of what you used to be and as many times as you shove them down a staircase or stash them in a drawer they creep back up. Sometimes it's the same old thing and sometimes it's new and you realize the cancer had spread to an organ you hadn't considered. But the road to recovery always seems fresh and new, and I see her and she's this character that feels the weight and the guilt of the past disease of addiction but also the freedom and renewal that comes with the gradual recovery from that cancer. There's a relief and a remembrance in that healing process, and so to me, when I see this photo I see my journey of healing.
7/30/11
Photograph is "Ivory" by the now Grace Adams
Photograph is "Ivory" by the now Grace Adams
This picture looks like the deep breath you must take right before you take your first step away from something painful. This is what I see.
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