this piece explores and interrogates the aestheticization of female suffering under patriarchy. Specifically, the dissociative process through which this aestheticization occurs. I collect pieces of my diary, trash and various other objects. These objects function as containers of memory. Haunted, in a sense. 

The piece ended up accidentrally having the appearance of a voodoo shrine, which would be in line with my cultural background. Central to Voodoo/Vodoun is the importance of possession as ritual. Trauma fragments the mind so that external becomes a container, whether through objects or experiences of the ecstatic or the paranormal. 

Further reading 

R.D Laing, The Divided Self
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Carl Jung, The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Scor