The series, Cellular Flow_ I’ve been thinking describes an unsettling journey of chronic illness, its complexity uncontrollable flow delicately combined in an otherworldly biological space. The images travel through an internal landscape without direction whilst it holds tightly to the external space. Crawford let’s these musings seep into her images in the hope it resonates with others.

“I’ve been thinking. Well, it seems I’ve always been thinking mainly about flow, flow of life, flow of cells, flow of energy, flow of time since I became ill, since others became ill. Isn’t flow what we need for continuity. After all some people’s flow can be cut short, distorted, broken, redirected, or just interrupted. Allowing ourselves to travel with this flow brings us to a new future, one nourished by experience, knowledge and opportunities arising from its complexity, the chaos, the surreal”.

“I have a deeper understanding of my body, born of chronic illness. I scarcely noticed it before, just used and abused it. Now it manages me as my head cannot. In the beginning I made a deal with my body and agreed to listen to it and do what it told me".

The abstraction provides a safe place for the audience to view the art. Read into it what they want or not. The images ambiguity foreshadows the future, complex but owning a place amongst a fluid and liquid environment The series of images swirl and flow continuously in all directions, challenging the norm. Using archival and digitally created cell images, illustration, light trails, and external space Crawford anchors the science in the hope it will slow down, just for a second, making no attempt to prevent it or break the pattern.