AOTA all of the above

Abstract

How is meaning made out of pain? How do you work through and alongside trauma and grief? What grows within a void? Questions of the self and its multiplicity, arranging and rearranging our lives and experiences through memory and making: language makes us and we make it. What if it is playful as well as sad, tranquil, contemplative or fearful? Wordplay and symbol making of a selfhood that is a division of overlapping personas, bodies, minds, souls are all integrated within this text as an experiment in living within a body of words, worth and work.