Listening to Silence
May 2025
7.5 x 4.75 in
124 pages
Edition of _
May 2025
7.5 x 4.75 in
124 pages
Edition of _
Silence is often mistaken for absence. But silence isn’t empty. It shapes how memory endures after decades of repression.
My MFA thesis at Pratt Institute examined how those silences persist in narratives of the Martial Law years and how this presence defies conventional historiography. I focused on how the underground movement resisted documentation altogether. Through their accounts, I argued that some histories were never meant for books or archives. They weren’t forgotten or lost; they just weren’t meant to be contained.
The research was autoethnographic, dialogic, and intentionally discursive. I gathered, interpreted, and published these silences as a communications designer unsettling her understanding of her own history.
My MFA thesis at Pratt Institute examined how those silences persist in narratives of the Martial Law years and how this presence defies conventional historiography. I focused on how the underground movement resisted documentation altogether. Through their accounts, I argued that some histories were never meant for books or archives. They weren’t forgotten or lost; they just weren’t meant to be contained.
The research was autoethnographic, dialogic, and intentionally discursive. I gathered, interpreted, and published these silences as a communications designer unsettling her understanding of her own history.