Katie Mansfield - Marked: Visible // Invisible
Marked: Visible // Invisible is a mixed media photography exhibit that comments on trauma and how the side effects are not always visible. 433,648 is the average number of people that are sexually assaulted in a year with 54% of those people being between the ages of 18-34 years old. These assaults go unnoticed because most of the time, the effects are not physically visible. The side effects are often mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, PTSD or all of the above. Often these issues are internalized and never uncovered because the words are impossible to find. Perhaps art can change that.
These images and markings were my way of finding words for my own story.