Barbara
Goodmiller
Barbara Goodmiller - I
am on an adventurous journey in life. Having
exhibited throughout New Mexico and nationally, as well as being an Artist
� in � Residence with the State of New Mexico�s Arts Division and
working with VSA New Mexico for its first 20 years, I have been able to
share this journey.
I did
not choose this path, it was chosen for me.
I only went where the road took me.
Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1976, I started my journey
into the unknown and traversed over various medical, physical and
emotional terrains. The art
began to express this journey. My
heart attack came in the early nineties changing the course of the path
and for a while I worked through the MS as well as the attack and my art
expressed the changes in the journey. Cancer
decided to travel with me when I was given 18 months to experience a new
trail. I struggled on that
trail and the bridge to the new millennium found me cancer free and my art
expressed the journey. My
latest path has been a brain tumor and I found myself traveling into gamma
knife surgery in 2003. Various
lymphomas have been removed over the past three years.
The journey continues.
Through
my art the paths of my mind have opened, life is defined, the hearts
emotion expressed, and my soul is set free for the journey. FREEDOM NOW
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