EMPTY YOUR CLOSET
EMPTY YOUR CLOSET
oh forgive me
I made this video during the last few months of living in my childhood home in Virginia. This footage documents a trip to New York right before moving there, and a surgery called a bilateral myringotomy which I had done in both ears. They harvested cartilage from my tragus in one ear, and from my antitragus in the other, to create a graft for 'permanent' ear tubes. The surgeon had to take the cartilage from my antitragus because I attempted to pierce my tragus and got halfway through with the needle before chickening out. I was 17 years old at the time and had 11 ear tube surgeries under my belt. This surgery was more complicated with a high risk of further hearing damage.
I tried to portray my experience with hearing loss and tinnitus through sound effects throughout this video. No, your headphones aren't broken, I just feel the need to be understood on a deep level. Bear with me, if you would like to step into my head for a moment in time then click on the image.