My project is a picture book about domestic violence. It tells a story about a woman who’s living in an abusive relationship with her husband. The book depicts a day in this woman’s life.
I used a lot of supernatural elements and metaphors in my drawing to visualize the traumatic experience. The husband appears mostly as a shape of a wolf-like monster in the story. When the woman decided to kill her husband, her hair curls turned into snakes – as a metaphor of Medusa, who is now more often seen as a symbol of feminism and women’s independence.
My work emphasizes how an abusive relationship would affect a person’s mental state. I want people to be aware that it is common and normal for a victim to hide their wounds, to escape from reality.
