{"id":312,"date":"2024-08-02T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sickaf.amandaalderson.com\/dir\/?page_id=312"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:34:19","slug":"christina-baltais","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sickaf.amandaalderson.com\/dir\/artists\/artists-pg\/christina-baltais\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Baltais"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I use creativity as means to communicate and process my experiences living with a heavily stigmatised and misunderstood disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Baltais, I Did A Thing, 2024, digital collage art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I Did a Thing<\/em> is a symbolic representation of the experience of post-exertional malaise (PEM) in ME\/CFS. It depicts the recovery period after an outing that the outside world never sees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Practices <\/em>is about the medical trauma experienced by people living with ME\/CFS as a result of interactions with their healthcare providers. It symbolically represents how patients are often dismissed, disbelieved, and deemed uncreditable witnesses to the experiences of their own bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Baltais, Best Practices, 2024 digital collage art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Baltais is an ME\/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis) advocate and visual artist who resides in Toronto, Ontario. She has lived with mild\/moderate ME\/CFS for the past 18+ years, and uses creativity as means to communicate and process her experiences living with a heavily stigmatised and misunderstood disease. She also co-organizes awareness and fundraising campaigns (#GoBlueForMECFS, The ME\/CFS Arts & Crafts Auction) that foster a sense of connection and creativity  within the ME community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christina has a BSc in Nutrition and Nutraceutical Sciences from the University of Guelph, and nearly completed her ND degree from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, when her ME\/CFS progressed significantly in 2015. Since then she has been using photography, collage, makeup art, and sculpture to explore the intersection between art and advocacy. Common themes expressed in her body of work include: grief, isolation, loss of identity, interactions with the medical care system\/society, and the actual experience of various symptoms of ME\/CFS (e.g. insomnia, vertigo, brain fog, post-exertional malaise, etc.) It is her hope that her artwork creates discussion around the difficult and challenging struggles those living with chronic illness face, both within our bodies, and with the outside world because of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Website: wordsasmedicine.com<\/a>
Instagram: @wordsasmedicine<\/a>
Facebook: Christina Baltais<\/a>
Red Bubble: WordsAsMedicine<\/a>
Etsy: WordsAsMedicineShop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Invest in original art.<\/strong> Reach out to the artist directly through their website, online shop or social channels to enquire about available works or future commissions.

Red Bubble: WordsAsMedicine<\/a>
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Christina Baltais
Best Practices?<\/em><\/strong>
2024
Collage, digital
29cm x 29cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christina Baltais
I Did A Thing<\/em><\/strong>
2024
Collage, digital
29cm x 29cm

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Christina Baltais, Best Practices, 2024 digital collage art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Christina Baltais, I Did A Thing, 2024, digital collage art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SICK AF exhibition, Nyisztor Studio, front Claire Townsend; L-R Olga Cironis, Lucinda Crimson, Christina Baltais, Sunniva Innstrand, photo: Brad Coleman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SICK AF exhibition, Rose de Freycinet Gallery, Christina Baltais, photo: Ash Cramond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Artist Statement I Did a Thing is a symbolic representation of the experience of post-exertional malaise (PEM) in ME\/CFS. It depicts the recovery period after an outing that the outside world never sees. Best Practices is about the medical trauma experienced by people living with ME\/CFS as a result of interactions with their healthcare providers. … <\/p>\n

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