Strata shift

2009–2010

During this period I became a mother and also physically disabled, with lasting mobility impairment. The CPTSD I had previously navigated while high functioning became unavoidable. These changes unfolded together and reshaped my life at every level.

My body’s capacity altered abruptly. Movement became restricted. Sensory processing intensified. Tasks that had once been backgrounded required full attention. Time reorganised. Energy became unreliable. What I could produce, how I could work, and how long things took all shifted.

This had material consequences. My economic stability changed. My professional trajectory slowed and fragmented. Access, independence and predictability were reduced. I had to relearn how to live, work and care under different conditions.

This period was not a single event but a reorganisation of systems. Physical, emotional, perceptual and economic structures were altered at once. The change was not temporary.

The work that follows does not treat this as subject matter. It emerges from it. Methods shifted toward sensation, material behaviour, listening and duration because those were the conditions available. Attention replaced speed. Relation replaced mastery. Making became a way of staying in the world rather than advancing through it.

This page exists to mark that shift once, clearly, so it does not need to be explained again.