I Don't Recognize Me In the Shadows Kids The images in The Makeshift

The images in The Makeshift City document Atlanta’s downtown street corners

experimenting printing methods and the aesthetics of abstraction

In this sense

Where words – free of hierarchy

this project combines a documentary approach to rituals and ceremonies with visions around the myths and legends that are illustrated to provide a wider and non-linear understanding

I Don't Recognize Me In the Shadows Kids The images in The MakeshiftThana decided to make this book to figure out how everything happened to figure out the war, the escape, the transition, and the unfamiliar. Its not easy to talk about trauma while youre living in it because you cant recognize it. Creating this work enabled her to tackle the trauma and to confront it her own terms. The images and the words serve as a record, a healing method to register and validate her emotions and experiences during the transition