She Creates A Remarkable Art Project About The Female Body. What It Represents Has Everyone Bursting Into Tears.

As exemplified by almost all victims, sexual assault leads to emotional trauma and depression. Since the judicial system hasn’t perfected its protocol in regards to handling cases that involve sexual assault, victims, which are mostly women, try to address the issue through art and hope that it would resonate to others.

Emma Krenzer, a 19-year-old student in Nebraska Wesleyan University, created an art project that represents the traumatic impact of sexual assault. Krenzer told BuzzFeed News, “I made this project largely for myself to actually visualize the lasting impact that touch have on an individual.”

The art project features a photo of a naked female body with hand and finger marks of different colors scattered throughout the body, illustrating the areas where outside forces touched it.

Krenzer posted photos of the project on Twitter, which garnered more than 300,000 likes. She said that the prompt for the project was “to create some sort of map.”

Krenzer said, “I thought about what was true for myself, and also, what I perceived to be commonly true for people in general, when I mapped out these touches.”

A legend was provided at the bottom right of the photo, with colors corresponding to a specific person: mom, dad, siblings, friends, lovers, and “someone I told no.”

After returning home from attending the Women’s March in DC, Krenzer finished the art project and posted in on Twitter.

Krenzer said, “Some people told me they burst into tears after viewing the piece and others thanked me repeatedly for creating it. I really don’t have the words to describe how it makes me feel.”

Krenzer added, “I think openness and vulnerability of it is allowing other people to make themselves open and vulnerable as well.”

Aware of the project’s impact to other people, Krenzer plans to expand the art into a series. She said, “I just really like working large scale with the human body and expressing important messages about it.”

Women are fighting even harder to reclaim their rights to their bodies, as displayed on Women’s March on January 21^st. Krenzer’s art project should press the issue even further and call others, especially the bystanders, into action.