Silence Artist Book

[prelude] It’s hard to remember things your mind hides from you. After an attempted recall, things are brought back into vision with an altered reality. Never will you recall exactly as what truly happened, nor will you recall the same details repeatedly. Why does the mind hide things from you in the first place? Sometimes the answer is to protect you from yourself.

Created to express a single experience of family-based trauma, this story is written in reflection of how it is recalled — fragmented, spaced, and linear. It was installed in the MFA Gallery Black Box with a projection of layered, looping video from the setting of the story.

Themes

The influence of place on my practice

Place, past, and purpose: a balance of layers

Collective memories + lasting effects on the mind

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