ICU
digital drawing & collage, 2020
Mr Surgeon
digital drawing & collage, 2020
Making space for trauma
digital collage & assisted-self portrait, 2020
with archival portrait photography by Oscar Vinter
Passive Power
digital collage, 2020
It's a struggle sometimes
digital drawing & collage, 2020
Making Space for Trauma
***trigger warning*** medical and surgical trauma.
‘Making Space for Trauma’ is an ongoing series which incorporates digital drawing, collage and assisted-self portraits and drawings to re-contextualise a recent medical traumas. This is a process I have found necessary to make space for and work through this trauma.
In my experience as a young women with a chronic and rare condition and a history of medically documented trauma I have been frequently gaslight by medical professionals and having a history of trauma has often stood in the way of an accurate diagnosis and adequate care.
On the flip side of this the trauma of not being believed, of being sick and of having to fight so hard for medical care has been completely overlooked by Western biomedical institutes which have not taken account of how traumatising being a patient can be. This images make space for my recent surgical trauma.
A version of this series was published on the Sisters of Frida website. View here.