Finding Me Beyond Illness: My Creative Story: Exploring art, Illness & Identity by Dr. Shanali Perera Zoology rediscovers our shared humanity

rediscovers our shared humanity

In this major new work

But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing

pigs who learn their own names and crows that go tobogganing for fun

his family and from life itself

Finding Me Beyond Illness: My Creative Story: Exploring art, Illness & Identity by Dr. Shanali Perera Zoology rediscovers our shared humanityFinding me Beyond Illness My Creative story: Exploring art, Illness & Identity by Dr. Shanali Perera "See me as a person first.. I control what I create. This was the turning point for me, when in the beginning, I had lost total control of the direction my life was heading. I could not control my day, my symptoms or how the illness was evolving, Focusing on what I could do versus what I couldn't gave me a sense of purpose and achievement. It helped me