Seeking Meaning: Stories of Dauntless Resiliency work by Sandra Mayo
I consider my art work a practicing in storytelling. I am interested in people, in families and their journey through generations: how families evolve, thrive or collapse; how extreme circumstances can affect them leaving rich stories behind. To tell my stories I use the aesthetic language of genograms. Genograms are pictorial family trees commonly used in medicine, psychiatry, psychology, social work, genetic research and education. They include symbols of hereditary patterns and events like births, deaths, immigration, marriage, divorce, sickness, conflicts, emotionality, dialogue and communication that embody relationships. Genograms can thus be seen as fingerprints of the emotional structure and history of a family. Each family genogram has its own unique pattern built upon the deepest and most basic human relationships. Genograms allow me to explore stories of immigration; to uncover tragedy, addictions and abuse. But I also discover incredible stories of social trauma and resiliency.
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