The Art of Weeping” collection came to life in 2017 when I started doodling in class to ease the flashbacks I was experiencing when reading course materials that discussed military and gender violence. For example, courses such as Women, War, and Resistance, presented me with challenging reading and visual material to process, yet helped me in ways that made some traumas surface, and made me face them. I had to watch my inner responses and become more aware, so I could make sense of both my past and present reality. I had to navigate through my traumatic experiences and record them with images. Months later, doodles turned into sketches, and as a result, a collection of over forty art pieces came to life. I am healing when I draw; art heals me in ways I don’t completely understand.
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