The Missing Minute

Charcoal artwork showing two moments separated by a blank gap, with a dropped mug and changed position representing missing awareness and memory around a seizure.

A familiar moment before. A different moment after. What happened in between is simply gone.

This piece reflects the gaps in awareness and memory that can occur with some seizures, when events continue around a person despite part of that time never becoming a memory.

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