Calling all Survivors Whom Make Art!

Things are going better for me now, I feel incredibly fortunate to have done so well. My last PET scan showed a complete metabolic respond! I just had my 27th birthday and I have 2 years to go to get out of the higher probable relapse period.

and oh yea, Im an artist. I think I forgot for time when things were the darkest. But the amazing thing is Its all still there.

For this reason I am inclined to curate a show consisting of other cancer survivors. So if your out there drop me a line! I would love to show what you make, made or are going to make to help create more awareness of the kind of experience we have both in myself and in the world at large.

See my web sight for contact at:

www.brettalexthomas.com

or my facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/brett.a.thomas.7

I would love to see what you make...

A Hat from Brighid Connors

Wow, hey hows Alfred University these days? Its amazing how many of us there are and how much of a presence this University has and will have in your life even after you graduate.

I want to come to your thesis show. When is it? I hope your still casting candy, and..,, I LOVE STRIPES! no seriously I think I have a problem.

A hat from Kate Lepore

I was sitting at a table thinking about how lonely I was feeling bitter about a residual mass drinking black coffee and a package arrived at the door with a hat and biscotti to sweeten the bitterness.

Thanks Kate! I hope your architectural restoration program is going well, and I hope that you are finding happiness in your life. Your got a friend in me!

I believe that you are a truly kind hearted individual.

A hat from Sarah Whitlock

Hey! Thanks for thinking of me. I love the pumpkin colored, where the wild thing are hat that makes me feel like a king when I wear it. You are an amazing person for sending me this after only knowing me for two short weeks at the Watershed Center for ceramic arts kiln building residency. I wonder how that huge wood kiln that we built is fairing the firings?

A Hat from Kat Lesko.

Thanks for the hoot of hat darlin! I hope you faired the frankenstorm well and that your children are getting through the flu that they had last week. I remember you most as a strong woman with long sturdy legs that can fair the storm as mine did for me.

You should know that I am here for you as you are for me.

A view with a distance...

It has been a while.

To those of you whom are suffering through the dilemma of Hodgkins disease I want you to know that there is hope. There is in fact so much in the world that it may be difficult for you to keep up with the beautiful storm of concerns that comes your way in an experience like cancer. While it is difficult at times you must be aware that anyone whom asks you about how you are doing believes that your existence as a human being on this planet is a good one.

I also have waxed and wined in the difficulty that is sickness now for some time to have surmounted the harshness and become a survivor. My purpose was only as a visitors was in the land of the sick.

I hope that anyone whom reads this posesses the capability to keep strong and steadfast though sickness. For me this meant giving myself a break, giving myself a forgiveness and being nice to myself for the failing that occur as a result of a sickness that is by no means self inflicted.

Id like to hope that any other human being in sickness would do this to.