Christa Donner explores issues of women's health and body image through her ink and collage works on paper, comics, and large-scale wall drawings. Drawing is both my microscope and my scalpel: it's the tool I use to open up a more complicated reading of the body and its image. My work explores the complexity of women's internal and external body image, its roots in the notion of hysteria, and the ways that we misinterpret or mis-imagine our health and ourselves. Sexuality, illness and injury, fertility, bodily functions, power, mass media are all key elements of my visual research. Using drawing to explore the fragile but flexible nature of the body's internal workings and the ephemeral nature of its surface makes a lot of sense to me, whether it's through the intimacy of hand-held tunnel books and comics, the layered illogic of collage on paper, or the immersive qualities of large-scale wall drawing and installation. This inquiry allows me to transform misunderstanding and anxiety into a personal, magical, powerful reimagining of the body and its processes. Whenever she can, Donner accompanies her art with workshops focusing on body image, art and activism.