Fifteen years ago, a therapist suggested Tricia Rainwater explore self-portrait photography as a way to process early childhood abuse. What started as a therapeutic practice gradually evolved into the foundation of her work as a multimedia artist — or, as she describes it, “creating an archive of [her] life.”

“I started to really unpack a lot of my own trauma, to look at it and piece it together,” Rainwater said. “I was able to look at a photograph, and be able to take a step back to look at it as an object that I was sorting out. Through that, I was able to process a lot of the pain and move past it, through it.”

Tricia Rainwater, ‘Ardmore Has a Secret,’ 2022. (Courtesy Tricia Rainwater)

Now, Rainwater’s work has come to life in her first solo exhibition, The Tellings We Keep , curr

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