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Artist: Laura E. Fischer
Title: Spirit Frogs (or My Survivor Community)
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
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There wasn't anyone to protect me from trauma. But I had companions. The river frogs, frog Riri, and the frog in the crack in the wall.​
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Eventually I found my community. Survivors who gave me understanding, support, and retrospective protection. A sense of belonging. My Spirit Frogs
Welcome to the 11th piece of the Living Archive of Survivorhood of Trauma.
Below is a selection of works from our Arts Collective created in response to this month's cover.
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Artist: Gavin Edmonds
Exhibition shot: 'F99', Chelsea Morgue Space, 2021 (After Rubens, Little Last Judgement, 1621-22).
Date: 2021

Artist: Julian Triandafyllou
Title: Prompt - A group of chairs in a circle in the room, the sun is streaming through the window, a green forest toad sits on the floor alone, a colourful graphic poster on the wall says "It's not just me" (Al Image Generator: MidJourney)
Date: 2024

Artist: Isaac Ouro-Gnao
Date: 2022
Biography
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There is a hollowed wheel
From a broken bicycle
That sits in the empty lot
Between two houses.
I’ve walked past it many times;
Noticing the growing vines –
Of rust and weeds – swallowing the
Spokes as if they were metal meals.
I look on jealously.
First, at the harmony of weed and rust,
Of rust and metal,
Of metal and ground.
And then, at
The other children
Patrolling the dirt road;
Stick in hand,
Edging their wheels ahead –
And chasing after them –
With full bellies and
Fuller wheels
Of laughter,
Spreading down the dirt road, bouncing
Between the two houses, and settling
On the empty lot.
The hollowed wheel rustles,
As if to drink in a familiar sound
Made distant by the years
Passing since its abandon
And I wonder,
If broken things – like us
Made of forgotten–
Are left chasing–
Artist: Isaac Ouro-Gnao
Title: Biography
Date: 2024
