Exhibit for October: "Marble and Mud: An Intimate Look at the Cancer Experience"

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, George C. Gordon Library

Photographs by Gene Cobb - Journal Excerpts by Jan Cobb

Dates: October 3 - November 7, 1995

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Gene Cobb, a photographer from Sterling, MA, and Jan Cobb, an operating room nurse at Leominster Hospital, exhibit "MARBLE and MUD" featuring photographs and journal excerpts.

Gene's photographic series, "Cancer Through a Dark Lens" was a year's project that gave order to the chaos of his wife's cancer. This look at cancer combines aesthetic beauty with an intimate record of emotion, struggle, hope and love.

Jan shares excerpts from her journal, "Cappuccino and Cancer," which details her reaction to the diagnosis, treatment, hair loss, sickness and the joy and fear associated with remission.

This husband and wife collaboration is self-expressive, therapeutic and motivated by the desire to show support for people living with cancer and help families better understand and come to terms with the cancer experience.

"People need me and I need them. Everything else is just form." -Jan Cobb