works — trish j gibson

on isolation

I wore her all around me

I Wore Her All Around Me is an exploration of spaces that I have considered a home. This work centers on the presence of both a real and spirited matriarchy that exists in my family history and also within the history of queer femmes. In this work, I explore the duality of coping with the loss of my grandmother who was vital to my development as a child and the process of coming out to my family and existing as a queer southern woman within a familial baptist tradition.

The texts that accompany this work are golden shovel poems based on the writings of Dorothy Allison in her book, The Women Who Hate Me. Allison finished writing these poems in 1991 - the year I was born, I see myself as picking this work up and continuing it from my personal modern perspective.

This work has also existed within a site-specific installation at The Rump gallery which included textiles, writings, and images.

memories we'd sooner forget

memories we’d sooner forget is a book project which uses photographic imagery, archival ephemera, and written text to examine a specific history of generational and inherited trauma through the lens of singular family of a southern tradition to point to a larger systemic breakdown of accountability and truthfulness regarding abuse

embedded in these walls

Embedded in these walls is an ongoing photo project which depicts sites of trauma specific to the family history of trish j gibson. These images explore the notion that a place can hold trauma in the same way that a body can.