Artist Statement
After You is a series of site-specific images and self-portraits that reflect the artist’s process of understanding and coming to terms with life after a traumatic experience.
The process of creating these images reference Kali Tal’s concept of the Literature of Trauma which serves two objectives: the first is to reconstruct the experience in order to heal from it, and the second is to create a dialogue with others. The images themselves are informed by Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the mental-image: images whose visibility can stand in for something that is not immediately visible. As a result, these images give rise to a discussion about the experiences, feelings, and visual representations that emerge from trauma, while enriching public understandings of its deep complexity.