Illness as Image, Rupture, and Narrative Break: A Workshop with Maia Stark

This workshop explores illness as something that disrupts our linear narrative—breaking time, memory, and, often, identity into fragments. Drawing on historical and folkloric understandings of illness as a curse, invasion, transformation, or test, participants will work with automatic writing and image-making to explore how illness can be represented.

Rather than asking participants to depict illness directly, the workshop uses disassembly and recombination as a way to approach experiences that resist clear explanation.

Care & Facilitation Notes

● Participation in personal disclosure is never required

● All prompts are metaphorical and symbolic

● Participants control their own distance and engagement

● The focus of this workshop remains on process, material, and narrative strategy

This workshop is for ages 18+