Day to day living / Lucy Chapman.

A concertina-bound book featuring giclée digital prints, etchings, screenprints, painting, chine collé prints, gold leaf and letterpress text housed in a replica blue hospital file folder.

Artist's statement: "Day to Day Living is an ongoing project spanning over two decades of medical treatment and surgery, presented here in the form of my NHS Hospital File reimagined from my own perspective. The project began as a way to process / think through / explore my experience of chronic illness, and developed to become a means of asserting my own agency within this system, by inserting my subjective lived experience into the narrative and redefining my sense of self. My NHS Hospital file is a potent object for me, emblematic of the literal weight and time lost to my disease and the professional care and expertise dedicated to it. But it is also totemic of the institution and the biomedical view. It is held by the institution. It is not mine. The measurable physical basis of disease/experience is the apex of the biomedical model hierarchy. Day to Day Living is a challenge to the hierarchy of information within this model, an exploration of the multi-faceted and dissonant roles of the patient, and the multitude of emotional, psychological and metaphysical responses to illness, pain and the medical environment. For me pain has been / is a portal to metaphysical and alternate realities. It is also a testament to the power of love and compassionate care. It speaks of the ineffable and interconnected nature of the human condition."--Provided by the artist.

[England], 2024.

1 folded sheet (38 unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations ; 34.6 x 912 cm folded to 34.6 x 24 cm in folder 35.7 x 26 cm

Edition 1 of 2.

Original edition made in 2022. This is a slightly altered edition from 2024.

Copy 1. Signed and dated in pencil by the artist on the title page.

Lucy Chapman. All rights reserved.