A Tangled Thicket – Cora Li-Leger

“My connection to the theme of neurology came about quite personally, as my late husband, who was one of the founding members of Z·inc, died of a brain tumour six years ago. As he was dying, he wanted to make sure that I kept working on my art. And I said to him that I was wanting to make a project about his brain tumour, and he got really excited.” 

The result was Li-Leger’s my starry night, a quilt stitched from fragments of her late husband’s shirts and embroidered with depictions of astrocytes, star-shaped cells found in the brain and spinal cord.
– excerpt from an interview with Emma Jeffrey in STIR