“Still Intrusion” is the first joint Photobook publication with my husband Eric Schusser.

The viewer is encouraged to reflect on universal human experiences and connections that make us who we are. Strength, determination and love are part of our story which also includes a journey with cancer.

My images made using photogenic drawings (the ‘Still’ of the book’s title) are juxtaposed against Eric’s modern digital counterpart (“Intrusion”) and the edgier, urban feel of digital processes.

This is a collaboration of very different techniques but with a shared artistic vision which we hope connects with the reality of life in words and metaphor.

When our world again dissolves into chaos and uncertainty with another cancer diagnosis, we reach for the hand of the person we love. We find the light again, find ourselves again, drawing solace and inspiration from moments, objects, and memories; the perpetual fragments of beauty that we see.

Eric’s work has an edgy immediacy, a crisp urban industrial medicine starkness that lays bare both form and emotion. My photogenic drawings break away from the austerity of the hospital and return home, to familiar surroundings and personal memories, scenes of equally ephemeral and timeless beauty.