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Accidental blooms : a memoir / by Keiko Honda.

by Honda, Keiko (Artist).

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Caitlin Press, 2023.

Honda, Keiko (Artist)

Myelitis -- Patients -- Biography.

Autoimmune diseases -- Patients -- Biography.

Arts -- Therapeutic use -- Biography.

Watercolor painting -- British Columbia.

Artists -- British Columbia -- Biography.

9781773861210 (pbk.)

150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Keiko Honda is living a successful, busy life as a scientist of cancer epidemiology at Columbia University in New York City when one morning she abruptly loses all strength in her legs. Withing hours, she can barely breathe. She is permanently paralyzed from the chest doewn due to a rare autoimmune disease with a frequency of approximately one case per million per year. Suddenly, she's that one. As Keiko struggles for life, she learns through lived experience the importance of community to healing, one of her prior research interests at Columbia. Seeking a wheelchair-accessible home closer to nature in which to raise her daughter, Keiko moves to Vancouver, Canada. There she forms a mutually supportive group of artists and art-loving neighbours and then, surprisingly, becomes an artist herself. While her illness forced her departure from a career she spent years building, it would ultimately provide the opportunity for a life dedicated to community, friendship and art, and self-discovery as a mother, Japanese immigrant, survivor and artist."--From publisher.

Keiko Honda is a scientist, writer, community organizer and painter. She holds a PhD in public health from New York University, but when she suddenly contracted a rare autoimmune disease that confined her to a wheelchair for life, she left her career in research. After moving to Vancouver in 2009, Keiko started hosting artist salons, for which she was awarded the City of Vancouver’s Remarkable Women award in 2014, and she founded the Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society. She teaches Liberal Arts at Simon Fraser University. She lives in Vancouver, BC, and enjoys watercolour painting.

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