Immediately after participating in The Spiritual Grand Rounds at Jefferson, I began making this piece. Returning to the hospital where my dad spent so many months between 2012 and 2014, this work became representative of the journey of his last day on earth: March 10, 2014. Some of the stitches and line work mimic the steps I physically walked from the waiting room on the 4th floor of Jefferson Hospital to his ICU room. We spent so much time going back and forth between being with him in his hospital room and spending time in the waiting room while the doctors performed tests, procedures, etc. The stitches also represent the time and date of his death: 10:45 pm of March 10th. In this piece along with others, there are lines grouped in sets of threes, fours, sevens and tens. For example, the lines drawn or stitched in groups of 7 represent the seven months he was hospitalized from August 2013 through March 2014 and therefore also signify his liminal space. The lines and shapes drawn in this map are directly represent the experience of being with my dad on the day he died. This piece also makes a direction connection to the cause of my dad’s death: sepsis. In fact, my dad’s death certificate read: Sepsis due to cause unknown. Click here to see the photo I posted on Instagram about this. Specifically, the inclusion of red symbolizes sepsis. It is devastating to have a loved one die from sepsis. Watching the avalanche of septic shock is catastrophic. According to Sepsis Alliance, sepsis kills more than 250,000 Americans each year. In 2014, my dad was became part of that statistic.