JIM RISWOLD
DON QUIXOTE FIGHTS CANCER
2013 color digital print 40 x 54 inches
Edition of 10

$2500.


Don Quixote hoped and dreamed big.

Don Quixote is my hero.

It is possible to score 356 points in Scrabble with “quixotic.”

I hope and dream of scoring 356 points in Scrabble with “quixotic.”

Don Quixote is dedicated to every patient of every oncologist ever. After
all, as oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote in The Emperor of All Maladies,
“The story of cancer . . . isn’t the story of doctors who struggle and
survive, moving from one institution to another. It is the story of patients who
struggle and survive, moving from one embankment of illness to another.
Resilience, inventiveness, and survivorship—qualities often ascribed to great
physicians—are reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle
with illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them. If the history of
medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions
stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.”

May they all score 356 points in Scrabble with “quixotic.”