"*This collection draws from my studies of Japanese literature and myth, a personal journey in natural ink-making to echo place and symbology, and my family’s ancestry (both in stories known and lost; epigenetics and health) - through the lens of my lived experience with multiple sclerosis and neurodiversity, medium and process. In my creative practice, the scales shift daily between these four pillars.* An iconic Yoshino cherry tree (as referenced in Ikkyu's passage below) structured from the artist's spring 2024 MRI, featuring handmade madder root and sapponwood ink and heavily embroidered using the artist's maternal grandmother's sewing thread. Lindsey is a second-generation half Japanese American, with much of her family's story and history lost. As the only one with multiple sclerosis, to her knowledge, in her family, she often thinks about the inherited history and responses to trauma and stress - two major triggers in her own health history. She takes comfort knowing that it is highly likely most of her family (known and unknown) have exhaled in the presence of spring blossoms. "Among men the samurai* [is best]; among pillars, cypress wood; among fish, the sea bream; among robes, magenta; and among cherry blossoms, those of Yoshino." -Ikkyu, Mottomo no soshi *translated as "warrior" the artist draws a comparison here to the commonly used phrase "MS Warrior" in the MS community. "

- Lindsey Holcomb

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