Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1942
Served in Vietnam, Army Nurse Corps,
71st Evacuation Hospital, Pleiku,
and 22nd Surgical Hospital, Phu Bai,
operating room nurse, 1967-68
Healing the Wounds of War, 1990, hand-cast paper, 9 x 17 x 18 in. overall
My mother was an artist. When I was a child, I loved anatomy—the body in motion—and I loved art. During the Tet offensive in 1968, our unit treated 496 surgical patients in thirty-six hours.
