AND THE STORY IS OUR PAST…

…is a self published artist’s book I made as part of my MA in Illustration. It tells a story about memory, trauma and repair, through portraits of people I had conversations with. *

Some people shared their feelings around memory, whilst others had experienced trauma of some kind, and spoke about their memories, ways of processing and forms of repair. Drawings are erased and redrawn to illustrate the disruption trauma can have on memory, and the sense of residue some people said that trauma left them with.

Ordinarily, memory is fluid, adaptive and essentially social. It allows us so share our lived experiences and form connections based on the stories we tell. Traumatic memories are often fragmented, uncomfortable and separated from a sense of narrative. My project explored how this story can be told. 

* photo references were used for anyone that didn't want to have their image used