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<\/a><\/p>\nUSC graduate student Maria Lamoine\u2019s postcard came from her love of the beach and the ocean. She wanted to highlight the ocean\u2019s extremes: calm and peaceful and strong and fierce.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just love the contrast of both of those, and letting survivors know they can be in that moment but that they can be fierce, and that both are okay,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Lamoine is getting her master\u2019s degree in counselor education and wanted to learn more about how to talk to survivors and, with her postcard, \u201cgive them a piece of light when times get difficult.\u201d She said she hopes that whoever receives the card she made knows they are loved and deserve peace even if it takes a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey deserve all of those things, and no matter what they are still strong and they\u2019re still fierce and they can get through it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Her friend, art education student Kelsey Phillips, decorated her card with a quote from Psalms 1:34 on a background of dark blues and greens shot through with gold. She was inspired in part by the pottery technique kintsugi, where gold is used to put broken pieces back together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was cool, using the colors and the gold to remind you of the embrace and the calmness in this time of hurting and pain but also being renewed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Some of the postcards will go in recovery bags given to sexual assault survivors in the hospital after a rape examination. There is a pocket on the front of the bag so the postcard is the first thing the recipient sees. Lovell hopes this message of solidarity conveys to the recipient that someone out there cares.<\/p>\n
For Phillips, part of the healing nature of art is how it is a way to share words and feelings that can\u2019t be verbalized with others. She also loves the giving nature of art, and Lovell said the postcards are a gift to not only the survivors who receive them but also the people who create them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wisdom we have in our hearts \u2026 that we keep hidden and only share with a few people is the most powerful wisdom we have,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd if we can take that wisdom that we hold and put it towards that issue of gender-based violence, then we can make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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