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carry it with you (trauma imprints)
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materials: a bedsheet, traced and cut to match my exact body specifications.
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parameters: The flat body is a stand-in for the traumatized self following sexual violence. It is to be carried everywhere, to every event. It may remain out of sight, and even occasionally out of mind. Suddenly something will bring it back into the front of your mind. When that happens, stage a picture. Repeat.
In this on-going project (2018-present), I stage photographs of the flat body, making what I refer to as trauma imprints. The delicate lifeless residue of a body becomes a left-over, discarded facsimile of a person who once existed. In making these shadow images of my own body, I consider what it means to be present in my own body, and what an absent brain and a present body looks like.
 Mt. Hood, Oregon Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Mt. Hood, Oregon II Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
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 Mt. Hood, Oregon III Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Mt. Hood, Oregon IV Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Castaic Lake, CA Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Castaic Lake, CA II Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 River, Washington Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  River, Washington II Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 The Great PNW Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  River, Washington III Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Ennui at the Waterfall, Oregon Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Burbank, CA Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Burbank, CA II Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  San Diego, CA Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Boyle Heights, CA Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  The Ceremony of Leaving One Place for Another Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 The Ceremony of Leaving One Place for Another II Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  The Ceremony of Leaving One Place for Another III Trauma Imprint Series 2022 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Ophelia Visits the San Fernando Valley Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Ophelia Visits the San Fernando Valley II Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Ophelia Visits the San Fernando Valley III Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Ophelia IV Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Ophelia II Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Ophelia I Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Death of Self Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Death of Self II Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 touching the earth after 11 months of hiding Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  touching the earth after 11 months of hiding II Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 touching the earth after 11 months of hiding III Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  touching the earth after 11 months of hiding IV Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Impermanent Glyph Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Leaving Home Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Leaving Home II Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  It happens when I'm in the studio, too Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Shadow of a Doubt Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Valley Fainting Couch Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Angeles Forest II Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Angeles Forest Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Three in Amboy Trauma Imprint Series 2021 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Desert Airbnb Trauma Imprint Series 2020 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 In the Garden Trauma Imprint Series 2020 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  In the Garden II Trauma Imprint Series 2020 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Romantic Getaway Trauma Imprint Series 2019 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Not So Grande OdalisqueNot So Grande Odalisque Trauma Imprint Series 2018 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Not So Grande Odalisque II Trauma Imprint Series 2018 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |  Reclining Nude with Gun to Head Trauma Imprint Series 2018 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
 Vibing at Home Trauma Imprint Series 2018 4.3 x 3.4" fujifilm instax wide |
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