identify with that beautifully moving photo. Thank you. 😌

I have many scars on my wrists and ankles from orthopedic surgeries from age 5 to 17. I have grown to consider them badges of honor!

I've got a few scars on my legs too - both from a spiral fracture of my leg a few years ago, and an altercation with a roll of barbed wire when I was 5.

I thought of creating a series of all of my scars (I have in the ballpark of a dozen scars from surgery or accidents - all but one on the right - and the one that crosses the center line is a c-section scar that runs across both sides.). I may still create that series, but it will take a lot more thinking (both about how to set up the shoot, and about whether I am willing to appear as unclothed as I would need to be to see some of them)

of 12 or so, many of which served for multiple surgeries on the same joints across a number of years. I’m also a nice roadmap of the evolution of scars from one that looks like a caterpillar to the more recent that are nearly invisible. 🙂

It's legs have faded over time, but it is still about 5" long, right down the center of my leg. It was back in the era (60s) and location (local farming town) when they paid more attention to a quick stitch up to get you (or your parents) back to work than to minimizing the scar.

Aside from my arm, my favorite one is the fading square on my leg where they peeled a layer of skin to cover the hole in the arm.

a caterpillar.. we don’t need tattoos, we have scars!

The sunflower is a symbol for sarcoma - and I think the scar would make a delightful center for a sunflower.

But I'll have to wait for my 92 year old mother to die before I get tattoos other than the dots the used to align the radiation machine! (Otherwise I might get written out of the will. )

She's legally blind, but it is amazing what she can actually see.

I actually have the legal authority to raid the estate anytime I feel like it. We have done extensive planning, and they figured it would be easier if they gave me the authority now rather than waiting until there was an urgency about such things.

My sister actually has several tattoos. She saw my parents shortly after she got one when it was really bright (and still sore). Mom scratched at it thinking it was a temporary tattoo - yeouch! She still gets her share of the estate - without the work of managing it. Hmm . . . maybe I should get a tattoo.

everyone who needed to be called along with his account numbers. Put all the kids as beneficiaries on the accounts and insurance policies etc. Prepaid his burial as well as let the funeral home know all his preferences for the funeral. As he use to say ‘plan your work and work your plan’. It’s motivated me to do the same. 😉

I was digging the composition. Good luck!

That is part of what I like in the image. The composition is classically "good" and the initial impression is simple and elegant. But as you look more, you notice scar, the fact that the flowers are wilted and dried, the aging hands . . .

... just like the impression that I have of you due to your posts in DU.

Thank you for creating and sharing this image.

Your avatar makes me smile. I have a necklace with that image from high school.

Black and white makes it "perfect".