Scar stories: Ted Meyer translates illness into art
Artist Ted Meyer told me he doesn’t mind that for decades he lived with a painful, deadly disease. The nationally recognized painter was born with Gaucher disease, an enzyme deficiency that causes problems throughout the body — including anemia, bone pain and fractures, bruising, enlargement of the liver and spleen, and fatigue. For Meyer, now 59, it meant a lot of anguish, both physical and psychological. So why didn’t he mind? Because his pain was his muse. He became an artist, making a name for himself as an interpreter of illness. And when in his 30s a new treatment banished his suffering, he was relieved but also disturbed. As he explained in an interview for an article for Inside Stanford Medicine: All of a sudden, everything that had been the …Read more
