Conversations About Power​

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The heavy application of materials was intentionally used to speak to the heaviness of the subject matter. The layers on top of layers speaks to amount of baggage I am trying to unfold. What am I trying to say here? Subconsciously I think I wanted to speak about my own abuse, I appreciated having a platform to say something without making it about me. The way that this project has connected so many people around me was really powerful. I wanted to talk about how sexual abuse can impact a person’s life, how there are varying degrees of abuse, I wanted to make people feel heard and empowered and less alone in their experience. But I also wanted to talk about mental health, and not just that of the survivors. What causes a person to abuse someone else, particularly minors and children? Are they suffering from their own form of mental illness? Is there anything that we, as a society, can do to help them in order to prevent more acts like this from occurring? Is their work/art still valid? Can we make progress by having difficult conversations that make us uncomfortable? I suppose there is only one way to find out. We need to try.

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