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Lighter than my shadow6/27/2023 The device of using a noisy black cloud over her head to show her disorder which grows and recedes, overwhelms and surrounds, and never quite goes away is illuminating of the omnipresence of her troubles. There are many spreads showing her looking in a mirror, and reflecting what she is seeing. With just a few lines, Green is able to convey the depth of her problems. Green shows how her eating disorder is a manifestation of her need for control and perfection, and how long term therapy ultimately helps her, though not in a dramatic “breakthrough” way, rather in a series of small realizations. After ineffective treatment after ineffective treatment, her father takes her to see an alternative therapist and while initially his support and confidence building seems to really help her, it later becomes something much darker. Green pulls no punches about how it affected her and her family. As she enters secondary school, and social pressures increase it develops into full blown anorexia. Using deceptively simple drawings and a shades of gray palette, British illustrator Green relives her battle with eating disorders from a young age through to her young womanhood.Įven as a young girl, Katie had a difficult relationship with food.
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