My project targets the gender-based violence that is often experienced by women. I want to connect with that audience in my project by creating a visual piece that symbolizes my own experience with a sexual assault that happened to me as a teenager. I wanted to depict common emotions victims often feel in relation to sexual misconduct such as anger, self-blame, resentment, and denial. I was inspired to do this by my volunteer participation in SAPAC these last two years. There’s a lot of stigma that surrounds women speaking up about their experiences with sexual violence, I want to be part of eliminating that stigma and inspiring other women to talk about their own experiences.