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Sharp Scratch

Megan Hancock

a multimedia art project mostly about disability and needlework

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Issues6Founded3 years agoLast Issue2 years ago
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Latest Issues

Fetch the leeches

A couple of weeks ago I was back at the Western General for my third operation in eight months, which is a lot, even for me. On the morning of my surgery a registrar came round to complete my consent form, where they explain to you exactly...

2 years ago
3

Metal-mouth

Three weeks ago I started a course of my least-favourite antibiotic, Metranidazole. I've had a long relationship with Metranidazole, going back to my teenage years, when my old surgeon Mr Scott - who was a real old-school guy and called it...

2 years ago
2

On the big computer screen

I started this substack last year with a lot of ambition and since then haven't done very much about it. The tricky thing about wanting to write and make art about your own illness is the illness often gets in the way.

Since last November...

2 years ago
2

Poor Things and Weird Bodies

Yorgos Lanthimos films, while not exactly body horrors, are films where the human body is often in a state of distress. From the opening shot of Killing of a Sacred Deer alone, a close-up of a beating heart inside an exposed chest cavity, i...

3 years ago
1

Cure the Sick, Raise the Dead

Linen panel with appliqué lettering, perle cotton and crewel embroidery

This piece is inspired by protest banners: this is primarily a demand for a world without illness. It’s also an exploration of modern medicine as a form of miracle pr...

3 years ago

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