Kezia
Tell us a little about who you are and what brought you here.
I was drawn to the project to further explore my relationship with my external and internal scars.
What invisible or visible part of your story do you wish more people understood?
The unseen wounds often shape the person more than the external scars. External scars can tell a story, that is often linear and coherent. What is held inside can be temporally disjointed with no fixed beginning or end and we live in the jumbled middle.
How did it feel to be photographed as part of Desire Lines?
Validated and seen.
Do you have anything else you would like to add?
Telling the trauma in an artistic way – while it can be jarring to those without a lived experience, adds a little bit of healing to us who often cannot find the words to say what is felt. How does one verbally define the loss of a life we had hoped to live or surviving experiences, we had never wished to have to convey an unspoken understanding? Art may be the best way to safely navigate this space.
This art is not for sale.
People’s pain and hardship cannot be commodified in this space. This space exists simply to inspire anyone who is struggling to cope or searching for a way through.
The art is a gift from myself and every participant. These images capture a moment in time that allowed us to realise that our pain has given us something priceless:
Wisdom and resilience.
They form the desire lines we walk as we move through each new storm we face, again and again.
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