Somatic Memories

This work is about the ways in which our bodies hold memory. It is a careful grouping of singular images and diptychs, utilizing self-portraiture, symbolic objects, and archived medical records. It is part memoir, part metaphor. The symbolic language of feathers, open sky, and domestic spaces indicate the desire to break free from emotional and psychological bondage. Clouds, contrails, and water represent a fleeting and ungraspable understanding of events, while text and imagery from medical records allude to specific traumatic incidences. I do not presume that my physical body, it’s size, shape, skin color, or apparent age is universally relatable. However, I do intend that the concepts are understood on a larger, archetypal level within the context of a feminist reading.