While interpersonal violence encompasses physical, sexual, emotional, and verbal abuses, physical violence has become the hallmark of gender violence, thus rendering verbal and emotional abuse invisible and underdiscussed.  In my work, I create mixed media paintings that investigate the inner dimensions of psychological violence, drawing on personal and collective pain and trauma.  Inhabiting the spaces in-between high/low art, uncanny/pleasing, and interior/exterior, my work incorporates acrylic ink, nail varnish, silicone, glitter, and thread to produce visually textural surfaces.  Abstract forms reminiscent of natural life and biological specimens enact predator/prey dynamics representative of the psychological trauma to a victim’s interior/emotional, rather than exterior/physical, body. On clear sheets of acrylic, these characters appear to move beyond the traditional boundaries of the picture plane.  Indeed, they traverse into the viewer’s physical space and allude to invisible abuses that often permeate interpersonal relationships but go unrecognized. Through my art, I confront the silence surrounding emotional and verbal abuse, aiming to both mark its impact and acknowledge the resilience of victims/survivors.