A local artist unveiled a labour of love at the Lacombe Memorial Centre last night (Oct 26th) that she hopes will help shed some light on the impact Type 1 Diabetes has on a life.
Margaret Blank of Mirror created the “Mark On The Body” fibre art installation in honour of her husband Howard who died from the disease.
It includes a life size figure with stitches that reflect the number of injections and blood tests her husband took over the course of his life living with Type 1 Diabetes.
Blank hopes her work will help educate people about the disease and press the need for more research “insulin is not a cure, pancreas and islet transplants can only be done from deceased donors, you can not give away any part of your pancreas and live, it’s not like a kidney transplant. I want them to sign their donor cards, I want them to go away and know that they can eat a healthy diet and live a normal life and be fine as long as they take care of themselves”.
Her art installation also includes stump socks that have been knitted by women from near and far, as well as small quilt squares that have been stitched by others impacted by the disease.
Blank, who also wrote a blog and authored a book about the impact Type 1 Diabetes had on her husbands life, says the proceeds from her project will go equally to the Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation and the Canadian Diabetes Association.
The art installation is entitled “Mark On The Body: Honouring Those Who Have Lived With Type 1 Diabetes”.
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