This piece represents a single socially-engaged artwork. It was created at Laurel Palliative Care Hospice in South Australia 2024. Over 4 months I worked with palliative care allied-health, specialist doctors and nurses creating a series of portraits and images from conversations with palliative care patients. The drawings hold tremendous gravity for many and with permissions, were copied and displayed  in a corridor of Flinders Medical Centre to Initiate discussion about palliative care. The 3 weeks of install included live drawing but most significantly conversations with hundreds of people using the corridor. I remember: a single mum and her daughter with a pink suitcase, two women from the APY lands late one night, a woman who had left her farm to take care of her dying sister, doctors, nurses, cleaners, security and many nods, smiles and subtle connections from people who appreciated the work but had no words left. It was a powerful reminder that art in all its forms gives the kind of healing attention that we need when our lives are shifting beyond our control. Art listens to and sees us and tells our stories. Art is an affirmation of our human connectedness and that is hope.