The Untitled Mapping Project: Case Study Trauma

“The Untitled Mapping Project: Case Study Trauma”, is an archive that explores trauma and the relationship to the self and time. The project examines the traumas of multiple people and asks the questions-- what is trauma really? What does trauma look like and why does it need a visual representation? Borrowing from, as well as rejecting, the principles of data visualization, the mapping project takes non-quantitative information (emotions) and seeks to visualize them so that I, and you, can better understand trauma. “The Untitled Mapping Project” also creates a layout where all traumas are presented the same to disregard the gravity of different traumas, but to acknowledge the importance and magnitude of every experience.

Untitled Project on Mapping Trauma: Case Study Trauma (2015-2016)- This is a three wall installation. All walls are painted black. The left wall holds 4 large, white-framed photographs with 6 rows and 7 columns of photographed envelopes. The opposite wall holds several prints of circular maps. On the middle wall is a projection of concentric rings.