Caroline Schub’s Diagnosis, accompanied by self-portraits from Schub’s monthly treatments, is a poem that highlights the relationship between doctor and patient. Diagnosis aims to share a personalized awareness of living in a sick body without knowing how to communicate a language of pain.
Diagnosis is about being diagnosed by a male doctor, and portrays the artist, occasionally nude, in several erratic poses. An abstraction takes place in her illustrated settings; body parts cast bizarre, volumetric shadows that imitate the drawn forms on the zine’s front cover. Diagnosis is bound in a stapled, cardstock jacket within a tightly-fitted Biohazard plastic bag.
Caroline Schub is a multi-media artist [b.1990] from the Hudson Valley, New York. After years of living with chronic illness starting from childhood, Schub began documenting herself as a form of self-preservation and survival - an unauthorized public record of chronic illness.