When the Body Speaks visualizes Erika’s struggle to communicate invisible pain, pleasure, and bodily experience.

Created in response to hospitalizations for major surgeries, some of the paintings were done over medical documents, journal entries, x-rays, drawings, and notes to piece together tangible fragments of her lived experience into an expressive testimony of an embodied life. Facts and feelings, scans and memories—the body holds these truths in its enigmatic landscape of color and light.