Out of the three of us girls, I was the soft one.

I think of my grandfather’s fingers, the joints split into swollen and bumpy fragments due to his Kashin Beck disease from contaminated crops and water.

Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.