Project statement The trauma::response scrolls hold Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn in 4 scrolls, all giving ode to a single poem that was drafted in Brooklyn in 2020 and finished in Miami in 2023. The poem talks about war, trauma, PTSD, and assault. Moreafter, the poem was the first ‘layer’ on the canvas, scrawled and written in graphite and color pencils before being painted over challenging ideas of readability and comprehension, aspects often damaged in light of trauma. These words were to be read the way images are read: in non-linear patterns holding weightage through both image and imagery. My motivation behind these scrolls was to create messages to lands and bodies that are no longer in materialization in physicality. Belonging and displacement hold together the nature of the medium, the scroll, which has been used for centuries to contain narratives and stories. These scrolls were painted in Miami, Slovenia, New York City, and Cincinnati over two years as a trauma response when my trauma became too much to handle. These scroll embodies the Woman in a Hybrid Colonized Landscape.