Photo: Vickie Dash's art opened the doors to her healing. The two-time kidney transplant patient displayed images that depict her journey at the Banana Factory in Bethlehem. (BEN MORRISON, THE MORNING CALL / July 19, 2012)
Two-time kidney transplant patient creates collages to trace her healing journey
Vickie Dash's creative process begins with a blank page. She is not looking to reproduce an image from the external world. Instead she observes her feelings within as they morph through the maze of her imagination and onto the page.
"Each time," she says, "an image came. It was a mystery and it always carried a message."
A two-time kidney transplant patient, Dash has depicted her journey to healing through images that make up "The Blue Dog Diaries: Excerpts and Images from a Transplant Odyssey," which recently finished a show at Bethlehem's Banana Factory.
The woman from Zion Grove, Schuylkill County has created her own mythology and pictorial language to illustrate her feelings as she waited for a second kidney transplant. While undergoing dialysis, and wondering if her life was worth all the troubles and expenses of constant treatment, she began the series of collages. They illustrate four stages in her illness and recovery.
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