Abuse comes in multiple forms. The pieces in my ongoing "White on Black" series chronicle and visualize experiences with traumatic stress and coping, specifically the adjustments that must be made to heal one's psyche after such experiences. The works are built from a studied visual language that conveys the melancholia of these experiences, and compositions are designed to capture greater occurrences, places, and struggles into reduced single images. Making these events into single objects helps solidify them, and so each work is painstakingly researched with staged and unstaged photography to capture as much necessary relevant information for the subject as possible.