Shocking Art!

When I heard that we had to make a piece of shocking art as our first project, I had no idea what I was going to do. It's not my typical thing that I would create or even attempt to create. I was a little overwhelmed when I tried to think of something I could do.
Then I started thinking about controversial subjects that I feel strongly about, and after a good discussion sesh with Lexie, ideas just started flowing out of me. The concept itself isn't really controversial, but it will definitely cause some double-takes and turning heads. It's the concept of how smoking affects one's lungs. My mom has lung cancer because twentyfive years ago she smoked for tweleve years.
She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer almost year ago, and the doctors told her the average person diagnosed lives about eighteen months. Since last November, when she was diagnosed, my life has a lot. Not only that, but my outlook on life is so different. I hope that through this piece, I can send a message that smoking is bad for you, and that it's bad enough to change someones entire life. And it doesn't just change life for that one person, but it also affects everyone who cares for that person.

So here's what I've sketched out... and it's not supposed to be sideways... :)