Rachael Jablo has had chronic migraines since 2008. If she doesn't take medication, the pain is so severe that she cannot speak. Unfortunately, a side effect of the medication is that she forgets words. To document her experience and help her resurrect her vocabulary, Jablo, a professional photographer,shot color photos of everyday objects and situations and gave them one-word titles referring to the word the picture represented. To show how art can help people understand illness, some of the pictures are on display in a new exhibit in the Learning Resource Center in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. For more information.
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For migraine sufferer, when words fail, pictures intervene
Rachael Jablo has had chronic migraines since 2008. If she doesn't take medication, the pain is so severe that she cannot speak. Unfortunately, a side effect of the medication is that she forgets words. To document her experience and help her resurrect her vocabulary, Jablo, a professional photographer,shot color photos of everyday objects and situations and gave them one-word titles referring to the word the picture represented. To show how art can help people understand illness, some of the pictures are on display in a new exhibit in the Learning Resource Center in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. For more information.
