Neurotoxic Peace

Silence. Words are gone, and the simplest sentence seems impossible to formulate. It is not about fear of speaking, but losing the actual ability to use language to communicate experience. At its foundation, Neurotoxic Peace is a way of attempting to piece together fragments of unprocessed memory. With words gone, the use of metaphor is a basic necessity for those experiencing the speechless horror of unprocessed, traumatic memory, and can serve as the foundation for creating a new visual language as a means of communication in photography. With this, the use of coded symbols and abstracted metaphor are necessary for the individual to develop a narrative that rationalizes what happened to them. Without this, the person is trapped inside the pathology of PTSD.