TRIALS

This project, TRIALS, streamlines all of our individual narratives into a visual record which all collaborators (including myself) are depicted as a living memorial, meaning we are enacting and becoming testimonies to events that once happened in our past lives. By viewing ourselves as a living memorial, we acknowledge a person’s history, what they are going through now, and how they will be moving into their future. Our bodies serve as personal monuments - representing our dedication to time spent healing, accepting and transforming. This visual record is a tool to enter the collective human experience, in which art is used as a celebration within the midst of intense life changes, and acknowledged as a victory against the harsh realities of living. My images don’t provide answers or resolutions, instead I want this project to be a point of departure into language. By working with the body to present the frictions of reality, wounds from survivors, and the ambiguity of conflict, we can begin to access areas of thought which are more difficult to speak on, yet can be expressed visually.