Ferocious Blessings

Someone referred me to a website with beautiful photos done by a person severely affected with ME and who has been confined in pain to one darkened room for 11 years. The photos are extraordinary, and I recommend that you take a look.

The site is called Ferocious Blessings.

Here is a little about the artist, copied from her page:

Severe M.E. has left me bedridden for more than a decade. Most of that time has been spent alone, in the dark, overwhelmed by pain and exhaustion, and feeling too fatigued for any activities. One day, after a slight improvement, I picked up my mother's digital camera. I didn't have energy to investigate how to use it, just pointed and clicked. My arms were weak and the result was blurry but there was tremendous satisfaction from producing something colourful – and it had only required a couple of second of precious energy.

Almost immediately I felt I wanted to take atmospheric photographs documenting the 'spirit' of one who had been ill, disabled and shut away from society for so long. I was the only model available for this and despite being very camera shy, I submitted myself to the scrutiny of the camera.

When I became tired of photographing tiredness, I turned the camera on the darkened room that I have been incarcerated in for eleven years. I discovered it contains a parallel universe of vibrancy (perhaps the so called invalid and her kind do too!).