This series begins in the archives of childhood. Navigating these eroded memories is disorientating and distressing; I recognize the little girl in the photos as both my past self, but also as a stranger. In my artwork, I physically burn out my own face - erasing someone I no longer see as myself.
Not all of the abuse I experienced in childhood took place in person; much of it was over phone and text - digital means to destroy the hopes of a child. I digitally remove the people who caused my trauma from my appropriated family photos.
Erasing, adding to, and shifting the narrative in my idyllic childhood photos reveals a harsher reality and a broken family. My physical disruption of the image points to the disruption that families can cause in the lives of the young children they claim to protect and love.
