Trauma art #3 Police sexual violence, abuse and brutality

Trauma art #3 Police sexual violence, abuse and brutality (20) 3 of 10

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30 x 40 cm Mixed media 2025

Stigma by Design: The Architecture of Silence

The Archive of the Unseen
This archive is a sanctuary for the voices the State attempted to bury. It is a testament (1) to those stripped of protection, systematically silenced by the very institutions sworn to safeguard them. Here, we document a fractured chapter of history: the deliberate dehumanization of those deemed "lesser" by the gates of authority. I was one of those.

The Cell, The Echo, The Shadow
The works on this page are the visual bone-marrow of atrocity. They trace the jagged lines of January 1986—a cold police cell in Zwolle where humanity was discarded. This was not mere misconduct; it was a calculated performance of hate. Within those walls, the language of the past—the rhetoric of persecution (2) and Nazi-style dehumanization—was resurrected to justify torture and the ultimate degradation of the body and soul.

The Buried Truth
The State’s own ledgers admit to these violations; their confidential records whisper of breaches against the very essence of human rights (ECHR Art. 3). Yet, where there is admission, there is no accountability. Justice has been interred in the dark soil of internal reports, a deliberate act to keep the public blind and the guilty safe.

Sovereign Evidence
This is more than art. These pieces are sovereign evidence of a state-sponsored crime. They are a scream for truth echoing through a system designed to fail. When the world chose stigma, we chose to remember. When the State designed our exclusion, we designed our resistance.

Notes: (1) the images were made for processing, because also without a criminal record there is still no official recognition, no support, no peer group, nowhere to talk, no option to process trauma in mental health care. (2) the texts in the images depicted at this page is- of course- not my viewpoint, but is the language and perspective of the police officers in Zwolle January 22 - 30, 1986.