VISUAL CLOSURE

Visual Closure is an ongoing interdisciplinary project rooted in my recovery from a traumatic brain injury. The project draws from rehabilitation protocols, perceptual tests, expressive therapies and embodied memory to explore the tensions between rupture and repair, hope and grief, and the longing to return to what once felt whole.

A catalyst for this inquiry is a perceptual test from a neuro-optometry protocol called Visual Closure. The test instructs patients to unify fragmented images and visualize closing the gaps within splintered objects. During my recovery, I found myself drawn not to the “completed” forms but to the ruptures that refused to be resolved. These missing pieces became metaphors for personal, relational and sociopolitical forms of injury, raising questions about whose wounds are acknowledged, whose are dismissed, which injuries receive attention, which remain hidden, and what it means to advocate for a broken spirit.