Closed Doors

Closed Doors explores how the silence surrounding childhood abuse deepens its harm and perpetuates trauma across generations.

Through symbolism and experimental imagery, Closed Doors examines how a family’s refusal to acknowledge a child’s experience becomes another source of harm. When we choose not to acknowledge pain, it does not disappear. Instead, it continues to shape behaviors and relationships, carrying into future generations. The painted hands represent both the act of abuse and the complicity of those who conceal it, silence it, or turn away. I aim to convey trauma as an inherited visible burden and encourage deeper reflection on the harm perpetuated by the things we choose to ignore out of discomfort.