Vocabulary of Trauma, 2012-

Vocabulary of Trauma is a series of looping GIFs composed of fragments—rejects, offcuts, abandoned sketches, marks made in hesitation or fury, detritus from the edges of practice. These images exist in the in-between: between works, between thoughts, between breakdown and articulation. They are the silent mutterings before speech, the emotional residue before it is shaped into form.

By animating these cast-off moments, the series constructs a non-linear narrative of memory and emotion—unfixed, glitching, flickering. These are not finished works, but raw utterances, the unstable language of trauma trying to speak itself. Each loop becomes a pulse in the nervous system of the artist's archive: a refusal to forget what was once dismissed, a gesture toward how meaning forms not only through clarity, but through fragmentation, distortion, and return.

In Vocabulary of Trauma, the process is the message. The pieces never fully resolve—they circulate, echo, and haunt. They ask: what happens to the parts of us we discard, suppress, or overlook? And what might they tell us, if we allow them to move, to repeat, to breathe?