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Art by Niki

While drawing the previous picture, I decided to draw what came to mind when I thought of the hospital. I made the surgeons faceless and not quite human looking because that is how I felt about them. None of them talked to me, introduced themselves, or acknowledged me as anything more than a piece of meat to be butchered. How they treated me coupled with what they were doing to me made them seem indredibly inhumane. I made their eyes red and their surgical masks resemble skeletal teeth to further convey the idea that they are scary. I am tied down to the table with a black strap, like I actually was and my gown says "hospital property" because that is what I felt like I became the second I checked in. I am crying and screaming and around everyone is flames because it was the most hellish experience of my life.