Name: Jeanne W., 64 years old

City: Phoenix, AZ

Type of Brain Injury:  injury-right sub cortical brain injury from family domestic violence
injury- concussion – beaten in the head while being held hostage
injury- electrical disturbance- hit by lightning
Injury- concussion- domestic violence- had a refrigerator toppled over on me .the corner struck my nose

Explanation of Brain Injury:  I was beaten repeatedly by my father. I ran away and got taken hostage. Where we were trafficked. I got rescued and met a man i went to live with who in his rages would shake me. then one time he hit with a refrigerator he pushed over on me. I also got hit by lightning several years later that gave me amnesia and i quit breathing.

Explanation of Mask:   my mask shows the types of wounds to your personality when no one helps you or believes you. ” he’s a good man, he believes in god , he wouldnt do that” the feathers are me letting the lies go. The bows are about being trafficked. The two halves are the “good /bad girl stuff i heard” and because im half white. Its about how we try to fit our fractured self back together. Its about the dichotomy of living with abuse and pretending nothing is wrong.