Abstract:The visual essay and triptych "Erase the past; It's over; Move on" is the result of an anthropological analysis of the cancer experience of a Portuguese woman, "Violeta", whose story is told by her daughter "Flor", thirty years after her death. Blending embodied knowledge, oral narrative, anthropology and scientific illustration, enhanced by metaphor and imagination, the use of creative ethnographic drawing gives a shape to the undivided processes of memory and forgetfulness pervading this narrative. Using dra… Show more
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