Asymmetrical Balance

These pieces were created across a week. They began with the realization that diffusing crisis and living with traumatic experience requires me to maintain a balance among disparate elements of myself. The functional adult me. The destroyed child, keeper of the memories. And the aggressor, both the internalized abuser and the anger about all that followed. Rather than enforcing a constructed unity through force of will, I must respect the roles those parts have to play and support the shifting among them.

The initial pieces in this series explore that triangular geometry directly. As the work progressed, it became about creating balanced images with multiple foci without falling back on symmetry to establish order.