Trauma Embodied, 2020

This body of work attempts to form an emotional connection that’s almost symbolic of a “shared wound” as there is a sense of healing that occurs in that kind of collective experience. I wanted to compose the active and constructive process one would have, where old memories/experiences are reassembled and attached to new information, thus the notion of trauma being relived in the body. Sometimes the body isn't too obvious as a form, as it’s not the subject of the work itself; like trauma that starts in the body, it involves the body but exists apart from it too.

Monash University.

photography credit: Zan Wimberly

Path to healing,

Oil paint and charcoal on plywood,

120 x 90 cm

Bed.

Mixed mediums,

200 x 195cm

Trauma Embodied,

Body-paint on canvas,

4 x 155 x 110cm.