Weapon of Choice

Digging deeper into traumatic memories through photographic images

"Weapon of Choice", an ongoing project, revisits a summer of violence and trauma that I experienced and witnessed at the age of 14.

A combination of digital and analog photography, collage, old photographs of myself, purikura, diary and text are used to delve into my past experiences to somehow try to make sense of why this happened and the impact it has had on my life to the present day.

I create images that border the now and the past, visual representations of living with trauma, a world that moves between consciousness and subconsciousness in the space of memory and resistance.

During the process of creating these works, I attempt to recount the events I suffered as a young woman through self portraiture and still life. I have reached into the depths of my psyche, pulling from these repressed memories, dragging up the past and facing that which has been with me for so long.

While haunting and at times difficult to recall and represent, "Weapon of Choice" also celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and acts as a vehicle of acceptance and healing.