"Emotional strength coupled with vulnerability makes a powerful combination. After my mother died, this self portrait startled me when I found it among her works-in-progress. It showed her strength of character and her self-awareness as she faced her mortality. The portrait was a project my mother started after she survived her first battle with breast cancer, but she never signed it or left any description for provenance. I dated the work by the visual clue of her curly post-chemotherapy hair." [http://www.janicewilsonstridick.com/powerful-combo-emotional-strength-vulnerability/] Discovered 2001. "...This is the face of an artist who painted until the last days of her life, while tethered to an oxygen tank and confined to a hospital bed in a sun room...." [http://www.janicewilsonstridick.com/an-awesome-mothers-breast-cancer-a-difficult-daughters-redemption/]