LUCID is a community based art project which I began in Wilmington, Delaware in 2001 and continued to work on during artist residencies in Los Angeles, California until 2006. I have worked primarily with participants from The Wellness Community, a national organization that provides support to cancer patients and their families. Together, the group built pinhole cameras that they used to create images, including self-portraits and portraits of significant people in their lives. The project gave the participants an opportunity to alter their normal relationship with self-image, over which they often had little control due to their illness. Aspects of pinhole photography that find an echo in the conditions of life touched by cancer include loss of control and an altered and heightened relationship to the passage of time. click images above to see different aspects of the project       -- back to home page----to photo index--