I Thought I Saw it in the Earth and in the Open Sky

Work

Installations

I Thought I Saw It in the Earth and in the Open Sky

Annex Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
2022

In I Thought I Saw It in the Earth and in the Open Sky, I utilize photography, video, and sound to examine the nuances of existing, remembering and healing after sexual and domestic trauma. Through these mediums, I explore how denying the viewer full access to myself and my body can be implemented as a tool to restore a sense of agency that was stripped away with repeated abuse.

Additionally, I investigate the afterness of trauma as a site of liminality, and how I, along with other survivors who exist in this state of in-betweenness, may still find it possible to transition away from the unbearable and incomprehensible pain of remembering and into a place of healing. This place of healing does not dismiss the gravity of these traumas, nor does it pretend that these trauma’s will ever truly go away; instead, it seeks to understand how our experiences as victims can lead us to new ways of knowing, and thus new ways of hoping, dreaming, and living after sexual trauma.

West Window, 2022

Sleep is a place, 2022

Install views - Annex Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
2022