The method in this madness

While ‘pink’ is the internationally acknowledged color for cancer awareness and is also currently re-interpreted as the color of the LGBT community, many of you may ask - but what does ‘Tarzan’ have to do with this project?

Most of us have watched Tarzan – in comic strips and in films – fly across dense forests hanging onto an arbitrary branch that appeared along his way. Tarzan is the epitome of the animal agility and the free spirit that is nascent in all humans. That’s what we at NAME believe as we call out to each other in the Tarzan voice. No, we do not literally shout out the wavy Tarzanic call : Aw aw aw aw aw ….” each time we meet each other. Metaphorically, we believe that humans are capable of astounding feats if only they realize their indomitable spirit.

Project PINK TARZAN is born out of that Tarzanic call of the wild.

To us, the women who suffer from breast cancer, as well as, their immediate families and friends, exhibit this resolute human spirit. While the disease encroaches upon a woman’s body – at times, forcing the removal of her beautiful breasts – they fight against this disease for themselves, for their families and for their children. They are the Tarzans in real life. They hang by the thread of medicine and chemotherapy as they swing across the dense uncertainty of life that they share with their partners and their children. Their immediate caregivers – their husbands and their families – also demonstrate the Tarzanic spirit. Without their support and care the journey through the disease will be a lot more difficult for the women breast cancer patients.

Project PINK TARZAN is dedicated to the women who are suffering from this disease; to the women who have conquered this disease; to the memory of the women who have put up a great fight till the end; and, to the caring and loving families of breast cancer patients. This project aims at increasing awareness about one’s own body to look for signs that need medical attention. And above all, project PINK TARZAN is a salute to the human spirit of “never say die!”

Join in with your Tarzanic photographs to share a laugh and enjoy the pleasure of having created an oasis of joy in the otherwise tough lives of the women breast cancer patients.

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NAME’s own Tarzans bring to you a sample smiling session at NAME’s test photo-shooting for project PINK TARZAN.