Fix Me! Sculpture, Freeman Z.

"Fix Me!"

A skull, a madonna, a mousetrap, and a speculum with teeth!

	Art is Life This was part of my senior thesis work for my undergraduate degree at the Colorado College. I didn't touch it for years, then hit it hard when I broke up with "the big C." I eventually realized it was about me, her, and our relationship.
DETAILS:
	Catherine had diabetes since childhood. Its complications were a constant cloud over our life together. She would require juice, leg rubs, or insulin at any time.
	Health complications arose constantly. Since she was the career seeker, and I was the domestic and the career helper, I had no security. Not even an insurance policy. Long after she drank one of her eyes blind, and battled nephritis, we were in our mid thirties when congestive heart failure came. I spent a lot of time in hospitals trying to comfort her.
	This expresses how she made me feel. I never would have left her. Thank God she took everything we had made together and left! goodbye to our only child, West Virginia Family magazine, my 528-e Beamer, the house, and my down payment. Oh, yeah, I got the dog, but I had to pretend I didn't want him.
	A metaphor of our long-overdue breakup: I was hanging this piece for my first Art show in 10 years, when I saw my Volkswagen being towed because of her unpaid tickets! Meanwhile she was driving my Beamer and screwing my former best friend...mostly in the head. Damn, but I loved that sick woman.