Title: Inner Child

Artist: Feilin Yang

Medium: Clay

Date Created: 3/31/2024

Words from the Artist: “As a daughter of a domestic violence survivor, as early as age 6, I witnessed gender-based violence in my family and eventually developed a complex PTSD into adult life. From a young age, I learned to protect my mom from my father and to behave good to please my parents while either emotional needs nor mental health attention was provided to the child, me. Now in my 30’s, while learning about my own trauma from sexual assault and childhood trauma, I realized that the way to healing is to take care of my inner child as the adult me. I am no longer that child but that child still needs care. So I created this piece an adult hand holding up a little girl who has no hands.”