{"id":2721,"date":"2025-12-29T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:39:04","slug":"unveiling-of-unmasked-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2025\/12\/29\/unveiling-of-unmasked-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling of &#8220;Unmasked Healing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2737\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/this-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2737\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/this-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2737\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Unmasked Healing&#8221; 2025 20&#215;10 Mixed Media<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nArtist Statement<\/p>\n<p>This work is an act of peaceful rebellion against the societal pressure to hide the &#8220;broken&#8221; parts of ourselves. Having spent thousands of hours both providing emergency medical care and later enduring my own journey through the most painful diseases known to medicine, I have learned that healing is not about returning to a state of perfection, but about the radical visibility of our scars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251229_175821328.PORTRAIT-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251229_175821328.PORTRAIT-1-151x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2749\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn Unmasked Healing, I utilize gauze-like textures and gold leaf to map the topography of the medicalized body. By placing gold directly into the &#8220;wounds&#8221; of the fabric, I refuse to obscure the evidence of struggle. Instead, I transform these ruptures into sites of profound value. For me, art-making is a grounding practice that provides a necessary sanctuary from physical symptoms; it is where I turn the sensory chaos of illness into a luminous record of persistence. This piece serves as a reminder that our most weathered layers are often where our greatest resilience\u2014and our most brilliant light\u2014is found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unmasked-Healing2025-20x10-Mixed-Media-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Unmasked-Healing2025-20x10-Mixed-Media-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2741\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2729\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251229_144939659.MP_-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2729\" src=\"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PXL_20251229_144939659.MP_-1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2729\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Unmasked Healing&#8221; 2025<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Statement This work is an act of peaceful rebellion against the societal pressure to hide the &#8220;broken&#8221; parts of ourselves. 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