April 29, 2008
With having two parents go through cancer, I cant help but compare the two experiences. When my Dad was sick I wrote everyday in my journal, I kept a journal. I haven’t written in a journal or even written about cancer since then. I think living here, living with my Dad, and experiencing it everyday made me need an outlet like writing. I needed to reflect and try to understand what was happening around me, right in front of me. Yet with my Mom, I wasn’t in the house, I was at college. Even though we were still going through it, and I was still here for every surgery, and some doctor appointments, I wasn’t facing it everyday in the same house. I would go back to school and distract myself with life as a college kid. I could almost pretend it wasn’t happening, not to mention that they were completely different cancers, treatments etc. I don’t know, maybe I have become a little accustomed to going through something like that anyways. I mean, it's not like it gets any easier, but I can’t image it gets much harder to accept and go through.
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01SJ Youth International sponsored by Adobe Systems, Inc. is facilitating a world-wide youth digital arts production initiative via a micro-grant program funding the creation of work by young digital artists (ages 11-21 years) during the months leading up to the 01SJ Festival. The entries you read below are by Whitney Aiken, who is completing a collaborative multimedia project directed by Space 47–an independent project space that aims to inspire a larger community of cultural entrepreneurs.
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