Artist Statement

I didn’t mean for this project to become a point of catharsis.

It was originally meant to be an exploration and education in the repercussions of trauma, on the most general of scales. 

It was not meant to be autobiographical.

It was not meant to have a focus on a single form of trauma. 

It was not meant to be about my assault. 

But sometimes, we are blind to our own motivations. 

Sometimes, we create what we need, rather than what we intend.

Over the course of shooting, I found myself creating images that focused on the body.

Focused on what I felt I had lost. On what I felt no longer belonged to me.

And it wasn’t until I sat down, and studied the volume of my work, that I realized it had subconsciously become about the reclamation of what has felt foreign for so long. 

So, the meaning of this project is two-fold. In content and presentation, “In The Wake” displays its initial goal of articulating the forms that trauma takes within us. But with an understanding of the process, it is also about the reconciliation and depuration of the self from our past.