Disorders of the Blood

<p>With candour and grace Leah Kaminsky focuses her physician's gaze with scalpel-like precision as she probes the secrets of the body's terrain. Exploring the vulnerability of the human condition she examines our fragile lives as we confront our own mortality - the weakness and the strength that emerge from the tumult of illness and decline trauma and war. Kaminsky lowers her doctor's mask using a deft poetic lens as she straddles the realms of science and the soul shining light on the malady of illness. By checking her own emotional temperature she foregrounds torment as well as resilience creating a powerful and graceful elegy to both the living and the dead.</p>