Updated practice statement
(20 Nov 25)
hopecore/buddhacore: for you page
Warisara Thomson
ez pray (POV: you’re praying but it’s karaoke)
no surgery no lotus
meds n more (I fear I am once again consuming pharmaceuticals)
bless this mess (prayer room edition)
prayer tables, medical info packs, discharge letters, chemist receipts, medicine trays, used injections, fake flowers.
Navigating the space between illness, spirituality, and doubt. Living with chronic illness means constantly balancing between pain and ease, belief and scepticism. This project is shaped by this tension, using humour, repetition, and ritual as tools for survival and adaptation.
Drawing on the imperfect, accessible world of karaoke – grainy subtitles, pixelated images, cheap microphones – to stage illness publicly, in all its messy, unstable glory. Ritual becomes performance. Devotion becomes camp. This uneasy mix of prayer and spectacle reflects the struggle to hold onto belief, even when it feels slippery when illness is against you.
This might be what happens when illness can’t be stripped of metaphor, when culture and superstition still shape how we experience the body. When maybe this could be my past life karma, I’ll just keep trying to pray it away.