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Framing: Embracing Trauma In Your "Surrounding World", Zheng Xu
Framing: Embracing Trauma In Your "Surrounding World", Zheng Xu
Masters Theses
Have you ever stayed alone and immersed yourself in memories? Have any fragments made you uncomfortable? It was a nightmare. Guilt, self-accusation, inability, exhaustion, and escape took my body and mind. They grew from my traumatic experience. They taunted me and tried to drag me into the abyss of the infinite past when I was stressed out and lost control of the external environment. The shadow struck me until my defense and control system collapsed. The scenes of loss, neglect and pressure became the violence to my psyche.
Unoptimistically, trauma always exists because of natural disasters, bereavements, cutthroat competitions, economic …
Reclaiming Memory Through Soft Spaces, Wendy Zhuo
Reclaiming Memory Through Soft Spaces, Wendy Zhuo
Masters Theses
Senses and experiences can make the memories that you are not consciously aware of become more apparent. Your body and muscles have memories that you will always remember. It just takes awakening the muscles to do it.
Our experiences become part of our identity. Memory has plasticity and is constantly changing as we tell them. Our memories are those experiences and by telling those stories, we start to understand and reclaim those memories and add those experiences into our identity. Through telling and triangulating these stories, people are connected, so how can the space become comfortable for them to share …