Chicago artist Sigler creates brilliant, strongly colored icons based on her experiences as a woman with metastatic cancer. What is so remarkable about the series of these paintings documented in this extraordinary book is how authoritatively Sigler makes cancer an appropriate center for her art, as appropriate as desire or formal beauty or any other reason for the creation of art. Cancer is the baseline of each work, but the works themselves vary splendidly. A bright pink dress is lifted by tiny birds so that it seems to fly into a yellow sky in "The Only Permanence is Change." A ladder stands empty by a dead tree, its broken branches bandaged together in "I Wanted To Be the Same As Before, I Didn't Want To Have Cancer." Three red doors labeled "will get," "will inherit," and "will not get" are lit by white lights in "We Are All at Risk." Rather than transcending its subject, Sigler's work brings the pain and passion of the cancer experience together with the pain and passion of the creative quest. Her unforgettable paintings have been shown throughout the U.S. May this book bring them to countless others who will be moved and envigorated by them.