PULMONARY SARCOIDOSIS

Charcoal on sugar paper, 2020

size 42.0 x 29.7 cm

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Pulmonary sarcoidosis is disease affected directly to human lungs. The scar tissue is known as pulmonary fibrosis and affects the tiny air sacs and blood vessels responsible for providing oxygen to all parts of the body. It becomes harder for oxygen to pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream, results in shortness of breath.

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While the symptom seems to be crucial, I did not expected my lungs to go that far. Lately, even before the pandemic, I smokes cigarettes until it became a habit. Knowing that smoking would definitely going to damage my lungs, There's still a sense of guilty pleasure from nicotine flowing through my body. Sometimes when I go out to the pub, this smoking habit would results a heavy feeling inside my chest in the next morning. Those heavy and itchy feeling would move around my chest like a sign that something is wrong with my body. When I closed my eyes and try to observe where the feeling goes, I can felt it is there just behind my rib cage at the bottom tips of my lungs. That internal weight is so closed as if I could just pierce my fingers along the ribs and scratches it all away.