Late last year, I was thinking "I am at a creative impasse, I have no new inspiration, I am repeating myself in my art, and also in this long, tedious, redundant thought-sentence."

At which point my exasperated right breast said, "Hold my beer."

It proceeded to gift me with a Stage 1A breast cancer, and now I have SO much new creative inspiration!  Specifically, everything I see, own, make or have made, looks like a bosom. 

Many of my latest gel plate prints, made with doily-like stencils, look like this.

My newest rubber stamp

Random pieced improv triangle mandalas that ...

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added by Cathy Perlmutter 8 hours, 53 minutes ago. under breast cancer , breast quilt , gel plate printing , mammogram