Collateral BEAUTY | Karen Mosbacher Artist

Collateral BEAUTY: No More Silence

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My entire life I was told “Don’t Tell.”

This exhibition is for all the other women who have lived through intimate terrorism and held these secrets for 12,000 generations. This work is a closed subject matter to many people, but it is time to tell the truth about emotional and verbal abuse. It is time to open the conversation.

"Collateral BEAUTY: Part 1, No More Silence" is a beginning and a small part of my story. I want to tell my history and experience so that it opens a space for others to tell theirs. No More Silence speaks out about being shamed, controlled, criticized, smothered, and defamed.

In public, I wore the masks and pretended to live the homogenized version of happiness. But, behind closed doors, it was wretched and sickening. Dismissed by loved ones, friends, even family. Art saved my life and provided me a place of safety.

No one listened to me until, for a few minutes, I literally died. For a time, I asked myself why I lived through such a catastrophe. Now, I know why I am still here. I lived so I can tell my story.

No More Silence.

“We have art so that we shall not die of reality.” Friedrich Nietzsche Next: "Collateral BEAUTY: Scars"

Can You See Me?

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

18" x 18" x 2"

Expression of one that is consistently discarded, dismissed, and ignored.

12,000 Generations of Women Deceived

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

18" x 18" x 2"

Common today and throughout history.

Blipped. Stripped.Tricked.

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

30" x 30" x 2"

Stripped of one's self by lies and deceit from an other.

Condemned Beyond

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

40" x 40" x 2"

Driven into submission without one's own permission.

Criticized & Demonized

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

20" x 20" x 1.5"

Made to belief that you are the problem.

Desecrated to Death

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

30" x 30" x 2"

When a sacred human is treated with silence and violent disrespect.

Silenced

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

20" x 20" x 1.5"

Attempting to psychologically "Silence" someone is a form of manipulation and emotional abuse.

Don't Tell or Else

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

20" x 20" x 1.5"

One's Emotional Invalidation and Threat.

She Was Unrecognizable

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

18" x 18" x 2"

Loss of one's sense of self due to emotional abuse and silence.

Pushed to the Depths

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

18" x 18" x 2"

Being ignored or invalidated is deeply hurtful and emotionally distressing.

Ridiculed to the

Point of Confusion

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

30" x 30" x 2"

One becomes unsure of what one saw or heard, as the perpetrator denies or distorts events.

Stretching Truth

Hiding Reality

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

18" x 18" x 2"

One is controlled by a juggernaut of lies…always rolling downhill.

Utterances Unheard

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

40" x 40" x 2"

One feeling dismissed, ignored, and invalidated.

Undone Scars

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

20" x 20" x 2"

One's emotional, psychological, and mental scars are as evident as the physical scars.

Watching You Every Minute

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

18" x 18" x 2"

Excessive Monitoring, Demanding Access, Constant Questioning and Surveillance, Total Disregard for Personal Space from a partner.

You Lied To Me

Oil & Cold Wax on Canvas

30" x 30" x 2"

When one finally figures out what is happening to them.

Absolutely Dissolved

Ink & Acrylic on Canvas

58" x 46" x 1.5"

Framed: 60" x 50" x 2"

Too many years of others sucking the self out of one, except for one's strong heart.

Sacrificial Awakening

Ink & Acrylic on Canvas

58" x 38" x 1.5"

Framed: 60" x 40" x 2"

After 5 minutes of death, the colorful fractals brought her back to life.

The Firebird

Ink & Acrylic on Canvas

58" x 46" x 1.5"

Framed: 60" x 50" x 2"

Life at its best, after life at its worst.

The Secrets Desk

Ink & Acrylic on Canvas

58" x 46" x 1.5"

Framed: 60" x 50" x 2"

Interactive installation where one leaves a secret safely in the desk.

Dirty Laundry

Mixed Media

4-sided installation of photographs, mixed media on paper, drawing of voices, collage of memories, mixed media of silencing the main predator, and a side of joy and the afterglow of freedom.