Sparkles on my Brain

This artwork is an ever changing view of my story with MS over the last 9 months. When I first was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis my Mum started referring to my lesions as sparkles and this became a great comfort to me. It was a positive way to look at it and made it easier to think about. Becoming a joke amongst my family and friends that if my hands aren’t working or I have brain frog I can just blame it on the sparkles. That sounds a lot better than blaming it on the MS. During my last hospital stay, when I started to think about this artwork, I was in a low mood, and started thinking about how at the end of the day 100 years from now if someone was to come across my body they wouldn’t know that I live with MS. And surprising that made me sad, that there will be nothing to show for everything that one faces with MS. But while I was drawing this and creating it, my mindset has changed, and yes no one would know what I’ve been through if they were to find me, but maybe that’s the beauty. The scan of my artwork doesn’t it really show the silver leaf sparkling but I will leave it up to the viewers imagination.