Waiting Room Wall Murmurs

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It’s important to me as an artist that I create with symbolic materials that allude to the concept behind each piece. Notably in this installation, Glass - as the fragile patient waiting to be caught or dropped, and nitrile - as the decider of fates, the gatekeeper of wellbeing, the personal Jesus whom we’ll all grit our teeth and wallow at their feet for life altering care and treatment. These metaphors create a language of power imbalance, reflecting how patients are too often at the mercy of medical institutions that hold their fate, held in these delicate yet terribly uncomfortable and even painful situations. In these dynamics, the chronically ill body becomes a passive object—observed, judged, and controlled—rather than a subject with agency and voice. And the physician rests beneath a mask of ethics. Notably, there is no longer a standard hippocratic oath in the West. There is a great variety of ethical standards in the west. Some colleges such as Harvard, go so far as to expect physicians to create their very own tailored code of ethics to swear by upon graduation.