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The music accompanying this video is selected from the composition “Distance”, written and performed by Sophia Exiner
Extract from Nola Stewart artist statement
Like all of us with polio, all I wanted to do was play in the grass and the sand, be able to climb trees, swing on swings, and just do all those things we were never able to do.
The base of the piece depicts days long gone, and the bright colours coming out of the inside, and the baby in “God’s hands” is the way we all were in the beginning . . . before we got the polio virus.