Isis Charise started The Grace Project in order to celebrate breast cancer survivors who’d undergone mastectomies. Inspired by Hellenic sculpture, Isis Charise is capturing them in all their glory.
Learn how you can participate, or simply to leave a comment for Isis about the project, on facebook or The Grace Project.
These images display these women’s strength for all the world to see.
This is The Three Graces — created by three sisters who’ve all survived breast cancer.
(Isis Charise / Via the-grace-project.org)
This is The Empress. The Empress is a powerful tarot figure. She represents creative femininity and rebirth.
Isis Charise / Via the-grace-project.org
Pallas Athene is goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration and civilization. She represents law and justice, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.
Isis Charise / Via the-grace-project.org
Mater et Filia explores the classic connection between mother and daughter and features a real-life set of mother-daughter breast cancer survivors.
Isis Charise / Via the-grace-project.org
Odonata is actually the order of the dragonfly, and symbolizes maturity and depth, power and poise.
Isis Charise / Via the-grace-project.org
Eponina is the story of a Roman woman who faithfully supported her rebel husband while they spent ten years living in hiding in a cave.
Isis Charise / Via the-grace-project.org
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.
