Medicine as a metaphor

Recently I came across a very interesting and important project of modern Spanish artist Sarah Landetta.
She released her series of works entitled “Medicine as a metaphor.” This project is aimed at showing people different perspectives of the disease. Sarah tries to convey to the patients that faith in healing along with medicines helps to heal. To this end, she paints beautiful birds on the reverse side of used pharmaceutical carton packs, which symbolize a “captive” patient wishing to fly away from the disease. Here’s how she describes her work: “The project includes a collection of 120 medicine boxes, which were used by different patients to fight their diseases. The reverse side of the package is illustrated by a wide classification of birds from different families. Birds are the only animal that symbolizes freedom and only they can help pass through the brush the freedom and reunion of earth and sky. Also, the bird is one of the animals that lives in captivity. This comparison of the natural and the synthetic interprets the patient as a captive animal, and the bird as his metaphor. By creating my collection of birds inside pharmaceutical packaging, I kept my only desire: I will learn to be a bird in captivity. Birds want to fly and this is what gives them the meaning of life. ”