These paintings have served as field journal entries in examining the relationship between trauma and perception, body and mind, trying to understand the points of connection between discomfort that is both emotional and physical. I aim to use elements of surrealism and abstraction in forming psychological "landscapes", to describe the internal processing of experiences that happen to the body, having the figure(s) be the grounding point in physical reality; these figures ultimately exist within a sociological environment, which is another dimension that is distorted by the experience of trauma.