01/10/2026
“The smudged colours on my sheets bring beauty and a joyful chaos to the sterile environment of the radiation room.
Once I feel the emotions have been laid bare in colour, I take out my bamboo pencil and scratch away at the layers of colour, revealing whatever it is that needs to be said:
Help.
This feels too hard.
Only 103 hours left of radiation.
Am I safe. I don’t feel safe. I am not safe.
74 hours left of radiation.
The child needs to be saved.
34 hours left of radiation…”
– Nathalie Latham, an extract from ‘I AM ALIVE’.
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