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Embroidered Cancer Comic Sima Elizabeth Shefrin Embroidery on Fabric This piece is part of a longer series I am working on called “Embroidered Cancer Comic Book.”

A few years ago when my husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer, we immediately started making cancer jokes, because you have to. If jokes made us smile we said, “That goes in the comic!”

The theme of this show is aging, but these days cancer plays a big role in the lives of many of my contemporaries. At this age it seems to come with the territory.

I like doing pieces on older people and sex/loving/intimacy, whatever form that takes and whatever meaning it might have for each of us.

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