Satica on creative expression as a form of healing from trauma
You have stated that your parents’ life experiences as refugees and the trauma that comes along with that as having a role in their “nurturing your creative spirit”. But would you say their experiences and stories influenced the way you approach art or use art to speak on difficult subjects like loss and pain?
Oh, 100%. I feel that expression is a way of healing. Talking about loss and pain openly isn’t very easy. It took me a really long time to come to terms with personal traumas that I’ve encountered growing up and even just being able to speak about it without crying. So it was easier for me to do it in a more indirect way such as poems and songs because it could be interpreted differently, and to know what I actually felt or was trying to say took a little dissecting. I also had 5 siblings and grew up in a tiny 3-bedroom apartment, so having a regular diary would just mean all my siblings making fun of my deepest darkest feelings. So expression via poem or song was like a secret code to me, no one really knew what it meant except for me.