Ellen Wallenstein

Photographer, Book Artist, Retired Professor
    
Infusion Suite
Public Project
Infusion Suite
Copyright Ellen Wallenstein 2024
Updated Feb 2024
Topics Art, Cancer, Documentary, Fine Art, Hospital rooms, Infusion, Medicine, Photography
As a photographer, I have always documented my surroundings and my day to day life, which since 2022 has been as an outpatient at Danbury Hospital Cancer Center.  I went through an operation, chemotherapy, radiation and other assorted “treatments”.  I am still undergoing immunotherapy infusions every three weeks, which is expected to continue for some time.

One of the rooms in the Infusion Suite is painted with murals and tromp l’ceil scenes. The intention of this art is to be beautiful and calming, which they are. Chesapeake Bay, with its wading birds, flying birds and swans, is a nice place to be transported to while being tethered to an IV pole. I enjoy the irony between the water scenes and the machines and tubes calibrated to dispense their own life-saving liquids.

Medical science is a miracle: I am now cancer-free, kinehora and knock on wood. What doesn’t kill you makes you strong, they say. I think that’s true.

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