Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Keep Fighting

my last 2 assignments seem to carry the theme of never giving up. last night's hoops - a close game for the district semis between 2 huge rivals....this girl plays so hard, she's literally one of those kids who will just give it everything they've got and then some...she took some incredibly hard falls - the kind that make you say ouch out loud just watching it...by the end of the game (which her team won), she was visibly so hurting that she couldn't even celebrate the victory with her teammates.
today, i made a portrait of a local woman battling cancer at her room in a county run home for the homeless...this is her 4th or 5th battle with the disease, this time bone cancer, having already survived breast cancer, cervical cancer, and others.
in their own ways, these people have something in them that just continues battling, which is a good lesson...they're my inspiration for the week.

sheila

heather

1 comment:

Keith King said...

Wow Kim, inspiration indeed. And I love the photo