Volume 8: No. 1, January 2011
About This Image
This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease is illustrated by Sue
Gordon.
Sue Gordon is a
printmaker/painter living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has two children
and a beautiful granddaughter who are a real source of inspiration for
her.
Her artwork was chosen to illustrate
this special joint issue on Aboriginal health because of its focus on
fostering well-being through local foods. She created this monoprint with mixed media for the Manitoba
Association of Community Health, Diabetes Prevention Project for Children
(1999-2000). At that time, she worked on a project for kids who live mainly
in the North. She was illustrating small books and cards to encourage a
healthy lifestyle among the families that would receive them. She wished to
show the energy and spirit of the kids, as well as some of the nutritious
foods that could be part of their harvesting and cooking routines.
As Dr. Malcolm King writes in his
editorial accompanying this issue, health equity can never be achieved
without the wholeness that includes the mental, physical, emotional, and
spiritual parts of our lives. We must go beyond the conventional social
determinants of health to look at factors that include promotion of
resilience through spirituality, culture, language revitalization,
traditional activities, and other forms of cultural connectedness.
Cover illustration by Sue Gordon
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