‘Shattered’ is a black pen drawing on white Bockingford art paper A1 size. I created it in Summer 2024.
It is a reflective Self portrait of how I felt shattered as a child when I was tortured. The child I was stood inside me the adult, so I felt shattered as an adult too, until I’d worked through my healing process. I’ve drawn my-Self standing angry and determined while bravely facing the tornado of violence in my childhood. I couldn’t escape, so I stood, bearing the truth of the reality of the violence that almost destroyed my sense of being a person, but could not destroy my spirit.
On 23 May 2025 I spoke with my art including “Shattered” to illustrate sharing some of my healing process on a virtual side-event during the 34rd Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Vienna. The panel was entitled: Family and Non-Family Non-State Torture (NST), Human Trafficking, & Femicidal Risks: A Person/Victim-Centered Approach. Our panel was organised by Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald along with myself and Ingeborg Geyer from the UN in Vienna.
Shattered
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