Un-Drawn Experience: Visualizing Trauma in Aleksandar Zografs

Regards from Serbia

Max Bledstein, M.A.

Independent Scholar
Aleksandars Dreams
Dreams of Others
Daydreaming
I was always puzzled by the fact that some of the

craziest, funniest ever cartoons were produced

exactly during one of the bleakest moments in the

history of the human kind (Zograf 120)

Animation
Comics on Comics
Limits of Art
In the breakdowns
of comics we see the
self (in action over a
span of time)
represented by
multiple
selves (126)
 Lines on the page, in how
they juxtapose time and
space, convey the
simultaneity of experience
the different competing
registersso often a feature
of traumatic experience,
such as the concomitant
presence and absence of
memory, consciousness,
agency, and affect (262)
 Trauma: the story
of a wound that
cries out, that
addresses us in the
attempt to tell us of
a reality or truth
that is not otherwise
available (4)
Traumatic Imagination:
one of the most effective
means of re-creating,
transmitting, and
ultimately coping with
painful traumatic
memories (6)
Un-Drawn Experience: Visualizing Trauma in Aleksandar Zografs
Regards from Serbia

Max Bledstein, M.A.

Independent Scholar