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Most recently, my work has been focused on survivors of trauma: individuals who have come to me to find a method of seeing the self anew, after years of fighting the invisibility we survivors sometimes come to call "home."

Each of us knows what it is to wear scars—visible or invisible—on our flesh. For many, there comes a time when seeing ourselves as real, as whole, is a nearly insurmountable task.

It is possible to find and record the very real aspects of ourselves. In that, I find beauty.

This is the Art of Scars: the genuine beauty of survival.


Photo, "Limbs II," Model: PJ Whitt.

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