Artworks by ©2023 Balbusso Twins for The Economist 1843 Magazine
It is a very complex and sensitive topic. The story is very dramatic, hallucinatory, a real nightmare. We have chosen to symbolically represent abortion through a very graphic and stylized drawing of the female genital organs, uterus. The steering wheel is symbolic....
1 - opening: It's my choice. The woman is forced to travel hundreds of miles alone in the night to be able to implement her free choice to abort, a inalienable individual right.
2 - Dread and anxiety “Then, about halfway through the journey, pain reared its head”
3 - The wait, Long journeys take their toll on patients. “The women who arrive -- they’re just very tired, they’re very stressed,” These bans have reordered the geography of reproductive health-care in America…..a swathe of the country that increasingly resembles Margaret Atwood’s theocratic Gilead.
Article online By Charlie McCann
https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/22/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-abortion-seeker
https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/22/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-abortion-seeker