Girl unfinished Drawing

The work is inspired by my experience with child abuse and trauma and my journey of healing my inner child using childlike drawing and collage style art making. In popular psychology and analytical psychology, the inner child is an individual's childlike aspect. It includes what a person learned as a child, before puberty. The inner child is often conceived as a semi-independent sub-personality subordinate to the waking conscious mind. I hope that the viewers will be able to get an idea of what a child experiences in an abusive family system where an innocent helpless child is scapegoated and subjected to emotional incest. I chose the style and medium to express a child perspective and way of seeing the world and the drawing materials children normally use. The chaotic style of drawing is also related to how the subconscious mind processes information and the way the shadow self suppresses difficult emotional experiences that a child is unable to process.