Regeneration through Creative Art Practice with Viviana Murillo-Morales (episode 8)

In this special episode, our SIC Health team interviews Sandra Viviana Murillo-Morales, arQ RunicoS. Viviana is an interdisciplinary visual artist practicing conscious ambidextrous drawing, the use of both hands while drawing. She identifies as a neurodivergent individual. Trained as an architect in Colombia, freehand drawing was always an essential communication tool in her professional practice in landscape architecture and urban design. After Viviana was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in 2019, she began exercising both hands to alleviate pain from peripheral neuropathy in her fingers, a chronic side effect caused by cancer treatments. She developed her drawing technique using coloured pencils and watercolour on different media. Her creative process is intuitive and focuses on gratitude for life. Our conversation reveals Viviana's cancer journey, her regeneration through her art, her advocacy work with Ovarian Cancer Canada, her identification as a neurodivergent individual, and her deep connection to the healing power of nature. We hope Viviana's story is as inspiring to you as it was to us!ResourcesViviana's Instagram accounts: Legacy @Arqrunicos_colour Photographic essays @ArqrunicosViviana's website (placeholder): www.arqrunicos.caOvarian Cancer Canada's website: https://ovariancanada.org