Drawing on lived experience, the chapter traces the journey from a radical hysterectomy and surgically induced menopause to the development of a body of creative work. It explores how photography, walking and site-specific practice became ways of making visible the physical, emotional and psychological realities of recovery.
The second part introduces The Quarried Body, a body of work that situates personal medical experience within a quarried landscape in northern England. Through the idea of emplacement, it examines the relationship between body, landscape and industrial extraction, inviting audiences to encounter hysterectomy and menopause as lived experiences rather than abstract medical events.
The book is edited by Lisa Lindén, Emily Jay Nicholls and Josefin Persdotter and is available open access via Taylor & Francis.
