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Henrietta Lacks, Immortal, 2026
Oil on Wood, 4.5” square

Her cells were biopsied without consent & distributed for as they refused to die. Her life was short, only 31 years, but her undying cells saved the lives of millions all over the world ever since.
The researchers profited in billions of $ while her family couldn’t afford .
They sued successfully after the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out, telling her story.

Color painting of Henrietta Lacks, shoulders up smiling and seen from below. She is wearing a green suit jacket with a white shirt, painted on a salmon pink gesso wood board, left as background.
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