The Same Cloth

Katherine Emily B.

• Artist Statement

  My piece is a poem about my parents finding out about my self-harm and seeing my scars for the first time and times after that. I feel like a piece around this topic from a more personal perspective rather than just a detached character has been bubbling inside of me for a while and I think I’ve channeled it into a poem. Because this piece is such large a part of me, I really had to think back to how it felt for my parents to look at me differently, the way they’d handled it, the way I’d wished they’d handled it, and what it was like to go through that whole process every time they would find out about me relapsing.

• Creative Statement

  Creativity is a manifestation of emotions outside of your body, an expression of the self in any way shape of form.