A Cauterized Wound - Alex Bennett

I have always had a difficult time navigating within the male sphere, often viewing manhood as a negative or violent existence. A Cauterized Wound is a poetic exploration of past violence and trauma surrounding my coming of age as a man, both directed towards me and through me. Within this attempt to reconcile with my own manhood, I utilize visual poetics and abstraction to both explore a past of violence and speak to the act of healing, by force as well as compassion.