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Pill Popper addresses the realities of living with chronic illness and the role medication can play in everyday survival. Centered around a hand reaching toward a pill organizer, the work confronts assumptions often made about people who rely on medication to function.
The text, "I don't get high, I get functional," serves as both a declaration and a challenge to stigma. For many people with chronic conditions, medication is not a luxury or escape—it is a necessary tool that makes daily life possible. The work speaks to the resilience of those who navigate illness while carrying the burden of misunderstanding from others.
Prisma Color pencil and Posca marker on paper.
Explores chronic illness, disability, medication dependence, stigma, and survival.
Pill Popper addresses the realities of living with chronic illness and the role medication can play in everyday survival. Centered around a hand reaching toward a pill organizer, the work confronts assumptions often made about people who rely on medication to function.
The text, "I don't get high, I get functional," serves as both a declaration and a challenge to stigma. For many people with chronic conditions, medication is not a luxury or escape—it is a necessary tool that makes daily life possible. The work speaks to the resilience of those who navigate illness while carrying the burden of misunderstanding from others.
Prisma Color pencil and Posca marker on paper.
Explores chronic illness, disability, medication dependence, stigma, and survival.