Bullseye. Mixed media on paper, 18x12, 2016.

Artist Statement

The images on this page are from the body of work: Vulnerability, Trauma, and Redemption: Healing the Family Soul. Specifically, this work reflects the parallel, sentient processes of mixed media art-making and healing from the psychological shattering of incest.

Interestingly to me, and I guess not suprisingly, steps in my art-making process map to psychological states inherent to trauma and recovery. Cutting and appropriating images speaks fragmentation, disintegration, and soul loss. Arranging and rearranging imagery reflects the psyche’s attempt to adapt, to gather scattered pieces, and explore possible reconfigurations of identity. Gluing and painting the imagery signals moments of recognition and integration.

So, overall, this work feels like a silent language of recovery – a process of transformation where vulnerability becomes strength, fragmentation becomes form, and what was abandoned is recovered and revived.

-Kris Morgan