Project One Assessment

With the process of grieving, whether it be of the loss of a loved one or a trauma that an individual encounters, the first step in overcoming the trauma is to relive and accept the circumstances.  With this project, the first trauma that I could think of and that one out of three women in America face a year is rape.     In hopes of creating an outlet for those who have been raped or abused I created this piece to sort of push the envelope and place the trauma in the eyes of not only those whom it may have  occurred to but the public as well.  I did this intentionally because of our societies inability to confront something such as rape that occurs on a daily basis.
While in class, I feel that I achieved my intentions and the reactions that I was looking for.  I knew that the audience would be unable to hear something that often happens behind closed doors or out of sight in their presence and them not have the ability to alter the course of the abuser.  Their is definitely a sense of hopelessness, but the question is whether the hopelessness is of the abused or the audience due to their inability to respond and react verses shut down.  We as a society are able to view other abuse occur in media and in everyday life, but when the abuse is to the extreme we do nothing but turn away and avoid whatever is occurring.  That to me is troubling, but I am still in a place where I too have to question that.