Our bodies retain memories, traumas, and thoughts.
Everything we experience that leaves an impact on us or the way we talk to ourselves.
To escape the overflow of information and fast paced living in
our society I try to spend time in nature.
It helps me slow down and recognise the heaviness of piled up emotions and thoughts.
We share a very vital dependency with trees and forests. They sustain us and we sustain them.
As a representation of this “body memory” I decided to document scars of either trees or people’s skin.
Most of these memories are not always visible, but scars are physical proof that something changed the
body, sometimes for forever. We often see them as imperfections. I believe however that they are gentle reminders of how amazing our bodies are and how our skin can create a new piece of ourselves to protect us.
