Jean Francois | Falling To Pieces

Jean Francois 

Falling To Pieces     

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The art of detailing how you are surviving your illness is like a jigsaw puzzle, one piece at a time. The first part of any year, for the past several years, has been particularly difficult and it has felt like piecing myself back together time after time, season after season. The pieces still fit together, but it is tiring doing the same motions again and again. My puzzle is no longer the picture on the box, I prefer to remake my puzzle self into something that works better for my harder days, a more fluid self. Creating a puzzle "me" helps me deal with the difficult emotions of illness.