Picture Your Poisons is an intimate portrait of a cancer treatment journey, grounding viewers in the real-world material origins of systemic anti-cancer treatments through the specific lens of one patient’s course of treatment. People who experience the project are able to explore data that is usually presented in an abstract, clinical context through a striking visual medium that elicits an emotional as well as a cognitive response. The artwork encourages the viewer to explore aspects of the patient experience relating to bodily autonomy, selfhood, and dis/empowerment in medical contexts by confronting them with disembodied partial body casts of an affected breast. Picture Your Poisons was exhibited in Creative Informatics ‘Unleashing the Power of Data’ exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland in April 2024 and in the Visual Arts Scotland centenary exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in February 2024.

The artists are currently seeking ways to digitise the fragile glass and wax casts in order to make them more accessible to wider audiences via digital means.