My arts-based and scientific works simultaneously explore what is most fundamental to the human experience of health and illness. All illness has meaning, and the to understand how this meaning is constructed is to understand something fundamental to the human experience. My practice is jointly rooted in the arts and the sciences, enabling me to explore tensions emerging through this interface in order to subvert dominant health-illness narratives and present a humanizing alternative to scientific discourse through the arts. An interdisciplinary arts-practice incorporating visual, audio and performative aspects allows for broad research into the experiences representations, and attributions that occur by people in chronic illness contexts.