
Hospital Sketch 2
- By Margaret Adams Parker
- Visuals Editor: Sara Kohrt
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About the Artwork
“This is one of a series of occasional sketches based on my experiences working with the hospital chaplaincy. These drawings, made long after I have left the wards, are not portraits of specific patients but are a record of their pain and suffering, their courage and dignity and–sometimes–their surprising beauty.“
Margaret Adams Parker has been a working artist for nearly forty years, and for the last three years has served with the hospital chaplaincy as a patient companion to the critically ill and dying. As a patient companion, she sits with patients and their families for however long they’d like.
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2 thoughts on “Hospital Sketch 2”
So lovely and so sad
What a wonderful capture of a very ill person,