Lightning Bolts In My Chest

Archival Pigment Print
Legacy Etching Cotton Fibre
20 mil / 314 gsm
10” x 22”
Edition of 200
Signed and Numbered

The original was painted in oil and silhouetted in silver leaf for the Juxtapoz 20th Anniversary show in NYC. 

The metaphor of "lightning bolts in the chest" carries an intense physical resonance within McPherson's life and work. She has been open about her lifelong struggles with severe neurological and spinal conditions, noting that since her youth, she experienced catastrophic spinal instability that felt literally like "being struck by lightning" shooting down her body. Translating this agonizing physical sensation into an elegant, Schiele inspired artistic pose creates a beautiful tension between deep pain and absolute artistic control.