City: New York

Brain Injury: Traumatic, hit by an 18-wheeler while driving home from a Yankees baseball game

Explanation of Mask: Angela 1 died on July 31^st, 2008 and Angela 2 was born that same night.  My newly wed husband was killed in the car crash and I was flown to a medical center with broken ribs, a fractured scapula and C1 vertebra.  I was a Glascow Coma Scale of 3.

Angela 1 was a VP of a PR firm.  Angela 2 is a widow who sleeps more, gets lost occasionally and is more easily confused.  The multicolored gap symbolizes the 6-week “beauty nap” (aka coma) where an old self was healing and a new self was emerging.