Every Woman and Nobody

My practice engages photography and digital montage to explore the intersections of memory, the body, and trauma. 'Every Woman and Nobody' considers what the body holds onto when memory fails—how sensation, gesture, and silence can become stand-ins for what cannot be fully recalled. The work is rooted in personal history but resists autobiography. I use my own body as a symbolic proxy, both specific and universal. Fragmented or partially obscured, my nude form evokes states of dissociation and ambiguity. Elements from the natural world—feathers, birds, open sky, water—suggest containment, vulnerability, and the longing for release. Scans of medical records and glimpses of domestic spaces appear throughout the series, grounding the images in lived experience. The home, in this context, is both sanctuary and site of injury—revealing how trauma and memory become embedded in space as well as in the body. The diptych form offers an additional layer of interpretation through contrast and similarity, both formal and symbolic. My work invites reflection on the tension between remembering and forgetting, concealment and exposure. It offers visual form to what is often left unspoken, encouraging a way of looking that honors uncertainty, loss, and the body’s quiet intelligence.