Symptom #64

Linocut & letterpress print on paper 

Nancy Kassam-Adams  2024

redbarnart.org  

 

This series of prints was inspired by a footnote in a research paper:  a systematic review of 391 qualitative studies on how people around the world respond to trauma (1).  The 64th most frequently mentioned response was “issues of the heart”. The relevant footnote reads like a poem: “heartache/weak heart/spoiled heart/dead heart/sick heart/tired heart/wounded heart/broken heart/heart in trouble/unclear heart/disturbed heart/falling heart/hot heart”. 

1. Michalopoulos et al. (2020) Global posttrauma symptoms: A systematic review of qualitative literature. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 21(2):406-420.