Before the World
Entered

An interactive work on prenatal trauma,
neurological development, and the systems
that choose not to protect children

Movement I
The Womb
This work contains documentation of
domestic violence, prenatal trauma,
and institutional failure.

Dedicated to C. —
who is waiting.
She was already learning you.
Every tremor in your body
became information in hers.
// cortisol crosses the placental barrier
// fetal heart rate responds within 30 seconds
// neural architecture begins forming at week 6
// she was listening before she had ears
[ her voice — to be placed here ]
Movement III
Two Futures
[ her voice — to be placed here ]
What was given to her
What should have been hers
The System
Hover over each node to read what it did.
FA-2024-000161 — Collet v Gillespie