Line as Navigating Trauma

Creating the Portrait of Change

Janine Joseph’s Decade of the Brain is an examination of trauma and the emotions accompanied with change. The reader is posed with a series of questions: How does the changed brain articulate something old, something new? Does the changed brain express rage differently? Joseph’s book is an attempt to reckon with the stark divide between the Before and the Now, and her decisions with line and form, such as word overlap and space, create the portrait of her new brain.