This method of “de-corporealized” speaking is meant to expose how society continues to suppress language around gender, violence, and consent. This is not merely a “women’s issue”—it’s about how language is constructed, denied, and distorted. I try to make silence itself into something that can be sensed.

I don't try to illustrate trauma directly. Instead, I create environments where its echoes can be felt. I use metaphor, repetition, and absence. A bed with no one in it, a dress suspended midair, a fragmented letter. These are ways to speak without declaring, to allow the viewer space to project their own experiences.

Luna Xue’s powerful digital painting “What Was Taken – Triptych of Silence” addresses the trauma of sexual violence. Rather than relying on overt declarations, the piece uses quiet strength to honor survivors’ resilience and the complex process of reclaiming voice and power from silence.