Sleeping with the enemy: personal processes and the creation of a costume designer in times of personal wars

Abstract

A life in design in the midst of war? It’s a big, powerful thought. Can creative practice survive the horror and insanity of trauma? How might these forces impact on self-expression, the urge to create, to exist? And in my case, can there be a war in little, mortal combat played out by two people with their home providing the battlefield? Hands that loved now threaten, strong white hands that no longer caress but slap and strangle, horrible fathomless anger rules the day. [...]