The beauty, fragility and vitality symbolized by flowers, captured within a cloche, showcases the divide between the ideals and realities of medicine and illness. Despite being present, they’re unreachable, representing the intangible medical challenges of a patient experience, easily misunderstood by those on the “outside”. However, light shines through and also links the flowers with others that have escaped their confines, to represent the community and growth that comes from illness and that not even illness cannot contain. To read more about the stories behind each flower, please follow this link to an enhanced image, with clickable tags: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1435304770255454211