Pain Scale. L to R: No Pain, Mild Pain, Moderate Pain, Moderate Pain (interferes with concentration), Severe Pain, Worst Possible Pain
Oh, those awful universal pain scale faces you see in the doctors office. I imagine they’ve done studies and found that they are effective, otherwise they wouldn’t be so ubiquitous, but I detest them. My contempt (and fascination) with pain scale faces stems from my experience as caretaker of mother during her battle with non-tobacco related metastatic lung cancer. In the photograph above I drew new faces on these blonde Fischer Price figures (to match the pain scale) then arranged them group portrait style on sweep of aluminum foil. I’m planning on creating more scenes for my “pain face ladies” in the future. I decided to make a group portrait, after looking through a box of old family portraits with my family this summer.