Athena Thomas

My name is Athena Thomas, and something that breaks my heart is the fact that there are victims and survivors of abuse. It’s something that unfortunately I grew up learning about first hand, and I want to minimize the amount of abuse through education. Doing good to me is going out of your way to make someone’s life better. Whether that be a cookie on a bad day, or adopting a child with a terminal condition. This piece of art is a genderless (abuse is genderless, anyone can be an abuser and anyone can be abused) silhouette with a red heart for self love, purple throat for voice, and a blue mind for knowledge. All of these things are from interviews with abuse survivors, connecting with the topic of my YLab - abusive relationships They talked about how they gained self love, their own voice back, and life knowledge after experiencing abuse. I chose to make the heart red, because red is a common color associated with love. I made the brain blue, because that’s the color I think goes with knowledge. I made the throat purple because that’s the color associated with the battered women’s movement in the early 1900’s.