UNION:
The healing has begun. This is in reference to when I broke a bone in my hand, and how the bone was held together. The tools shown are those sometimes used in orthopedic surgery.
HEALER'S GIFT:
The energy and talent to heal, repair and restore. Such abilites have been historically associated with gods and deities. The ancient Greek/Roman god of medicine Aesculapius, and Jesus Christ are examples. Yet sadly for the phobic, the fear is still there, blotting out the ultimate beneficial purpose.
LIFEXTENSION:
Life prevails where death should have won out. How many people would be severly maimed, lamed and crippled and dead were it not for medical intervention? The answer is unfathomable.
SAVED:
That which is but would not have been if not for them. What would your life be like, would you even be alive, with out medical treatment? This represents medical interventions that have positively affected my life: Several oral surgeries to correct many problems, surgical setting of a broken hand bone, and laser correction of my vision to above perfection.
SYMBOLISM GUIDE:
The wolf: The face of terror, the fear the phobic experiences. I have chosen to use the historical symbolism of the wolf, not the benevolent, beautiful animal we know today, but what it represented for many centuries: evil, terror, death, fear, anything that was out to get someone, bloodlust. The face that replaces the humanity of the doctor and nurse, obscures rational thought with unrelenting dread. The phobic is so terrified that the doctor, despite his actions to the contrary, might as well have become a ravening beast of prey.
Sunrise/sunset: Rising: Creation, renewal, beginning. Setting: shutting down, fading away, closing. Alternately the brightness, heat of the sun: Fusion, alchemy.
Water/ocean/lakes: If red- blood. Otherwise, being overwhelmed, drowning, but also re-birth.
Clouds: Sleep, dreams, drug-induced stupor and amnesia, memories, the past.
Blurred imagery: The past, time distortion, slow motion, memory and imagination.
Colors: Greens, blues and any hues in between: stereotypical hospital colors
Red: blood, anxiety. Yellow: creation alternately pallor, illness, nausea
Fire: danger, or perceived danger
