Cancer & Love: Biohazard Chemotherapy by Visual Studies Workshop
"’Cancer & Love’ traces parallel, paradoxical stories—one a tale of terror of cancer/chemotherapy, and the other a love story between patient and her surgeon/oncologist, and the conflicted and dangerous space of surgeons/men with power and patients/women at their most vulnerable. Working from hundreds of photos of the parade of health care workers, microscopic photos from personal pathology slides, plus seven journals, ‘Cancer & Love’ combines social commentary and personal narrative, including: the Me-Too Movement; The Emperor of All Maladies’ contention that women’s cancers have been over-treated, and patented drugs at exorbitant costs.” - VSW
Processes, Dimensions, and Edition Information
By Kathy Hettinga
Rochester, New York: VSW Press, 2023. Edition of 55.7x7.5”; 70 pages with 7 book inserts. Custom post-binding. Digital printing. Images: photos, digital, Pentax 35mm, Kodak disposable, phone 7 Plus, digital scans of microscope cells from Hettinga's pathology slides; anemones and urchins, digital commons. Printing: Digital offset, HP Indigo. Paper: Mohawk Superfine White Eggshell 80lb text. Fonts: Arial, Monotype, 1982; Base-Monospace, Zuzana Licko, Emigre, 1997. Booklets: Pathology Poetics with Journal Entries letterpress print4ed, with polymer and pressure plates, from Hettinga's 'Dunbo’ Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic. Inserted 7x5" booklets printed, archival 20lb text. Binding: French fold, post-bound in Colorplan Pale Gray 200lb card stock. Cover plate: Flexographic printed on Sintra.