Diagnosed with phantom pain

Under the surface of the superficial are significant issues which touch every part of our lives. They affect our perception in any possible way, from school education to our health care system. Sometimes they can cause enormous damage, like depression, or in other cases, depression procured by structures and norms our society believes in, like hot water that heats up until you burn your skin. Some call it hysteria or manifest it as craziness. Problematic is the social meaning that we ascribe to the human body, which is rooted in an intended failure or, in other words, the horse‘s mouth of gender. As men don‘t have female bodies, they skip the fact that women, or people who identify themselves as female, stumble upon other problems in daily life.

We live like defective male beings because our differences are ignored and converted into gender-neutral. Unasked, we have to face unequal payment, sexual harassment, male violence, unpaid workload, and still have to act like little princesses perfect we can call it discrimination against women supported through education and socialization. It is weird to grow older and realize what others have been through after a specific time; the façade of the perfect life begins to crack, and the crumbling plaster reveals the broken foundation. They say: don‘t look too deeply into things, or

you will look backward. It feels like looking at oneself apart from one‘s body and judging whether one is behaving correctly. The photographs serve as a marker to show where one was and how one moved on. It is about the process of therapy and healing and gives a safe space to speak out one‘s silence when in moments, one loses one‘s voice. Silence comes from one‘s experience growing up to be or become a better person.