Name: Anna

City: Shelburne

Brain Injury: Dirt road in Hinesburge, VT I got in a bicycle accident with my helmet on.  I broke my jaw and smashed my eye and tore a blood vessel resulting in a cerebral hemorrhage on July 28, 2005

Explanation of Mask: I want to give two sides to my accident.  Grief and sadness on one side of the coin and freedom and brightness  on the other side.  Always go on feeling these two sides- maybe you feeling happy and then as time goes on maybe you feeling sad.  They are part of the same coin.  In Joanna Macy’s book Coming Back to Life, she has a quote, “How shall I begin my song in the blue night that is settling?  In the great night my heart will go out, toward me the darkness comes rattling.  In the great night, my heart will go out.”  We are all connected- That’s what my mask represents.