When facing cancer, far from her family and country, alone, Danielle
found the strength she needed to fight, in personal expression. She
confided her innermost thoughts to her modest art forms. It became a
survival quest, an exercise in human resilience. Images and added poems
helped her conjure up the tenets of her life.
People who are confronted by near-death experience through disease will
closely relate to her ordeals having to come to terms with the possible
outcome of treatment: a scary dilemma.
Art helped her retake charge of her life rather than let herself be
victimised by the experience. She couldn't change the course of events
but she could change the way she looked at it and become more positive.
A deeper self-comprehension came with the acceptation of her own human
limitations. Only later serenity became part of the equation.