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Breast Cancer Art Project - Toby Hilden

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My mother died of metastasized breast cancer in February of 2001 after valiantly struggling with the disease for five years. After her death, in the years that followed, a large part of coping with the emptiness in my life was my art. I first started what I now call the "Fiberglass Busts Project" driven by subconscious motives I wouldn't understand until much later. It began from a need to create something out of the emptiness in my life, a time consuming project to fill my days with errands and give me a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Earlier in 2001, I had gotten it into my head that I wanted to create a sculpture using fiberglass, a media I had never worked with before. In the past, I had made countless three dimensional pieces out of paper mache, a favorite medium of mine. It is an easy, cheap and forgiving material to work with, but ultimately the end result always felt temporary. Of all the paper mache sculptures I had created in college, not one of them survived in a U-Haul. For what I was preparing to do, that subconscious motivation was telling me I needed to go stronger, more durable. permanent.

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