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How To Breathe: The Art And Faith Of Dylan Mortimer

E.G. Schempf
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Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
Dylan's art often deals with his disease. This piece is titled "I Want More Air!".

Artist and pastor Dylan Mortimer has cystic fibrosis, a disease that fills the lungs and other organs with a thick mucous, eventually clogging airways and limiting the sufferer's ability to breathe. When Mortimer was growing up, the life expectancy for someone with cystic fibrosis was the late teen years. Now, thanks to advances in medicine, it's 37. Mortimer is 36.

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Music: When The Guests Have Left, Paper Napkin, Filing Away and Threads and Veils by Blue Dot Sessions; all have been edited

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