Art Exhibition

The poster for "Shattered" features Tina's powerful painting, "A Moment," symbolizing her experience of living life second by second after enduring seven surgeries. The documentary reveals how the workers' compensation system compounds injuries, making it emotionally and mentally impossible for the injured to think beyond the present. 

 

Tina uses art as therapy. Tina does not sell her art. It is for therapy only. When we saw her beautiful painting we asked could we use it for the film's poster. Tina has kindly loaned it us and afterwards it will be returned to her. It is a hobby that she uses to try and Self Care. She rarely ventures outside of her home except for medical appointments and her art gives her great comfort, helping her to heal.  She discovered it during A Paint and Sip outing a friend insisted she attend during COVID. 'I had no idea I could draw, let alone with only one hand as I can't even use the other.' I guess art as therapy finds a way.' 

 

No longer able to use her left hand, Tina paints in moments and often it takes days to complete a single task. She moves around her home to paint, stopping and starting to ease the pain. Tina always has the lovely ritual of wearing lipstick to paint. She says, 'I feel like a woman again when I do that. This whole experience of ending up with such an extreme disability after simply falling over at work has left me shattered but more so how the system has treated me.'

Note: Tina has generously loaned us this beautiful piece of art to use for Shattered.