Analysis of myself

This was a personal piece that was much more about the process than the finished work. This piece is made completely of ink on paper.

This artwork I created was a layer of writing I did with an image of myself as a toddler. This became a self-healing piece since it was about my past and present issues with my PTSD due to being a survivor of being molested and raped as a young girl.

I wrote about my feelings, and I wrote about what I was thinking and how much the tragic memories have affected me throughout life. I always quietly made my work while in college about this, and not until my senior year, for my senior show—was I up front about my experience and trauma. Most of the art I’ve made was me making it about my trauma and then pretending it was about something else, covering up. At this stage in my life I was still covering up my emotions.