Constellations

We treat the body as an afterthought until it no longer can be.  Until the pain or the pleasure is too great.  Sinéad Gleeson's life has been marked by terrible illness, including leukemia and debilitating arthritis.  As a child, she bathed in the springs of Lourdes, ever hopeful that her body would cooperate, ever looking forward to the day when she could take her body for granted. But, just as she turns inward to explore her own pain, then the marvel of recovery, then the arrival of her greatest joys, falling in love, and becoming a mother, she turns her gaze outward.  She delves into music, art, history, and literature-from Nick Cave to Taylor Swift, Botticelli to Frida Kahlo, Louisa May Alcott to Lucy Grealy-plotting the intimate experience of life in a woman's body across a wide-ranging map.