umisuzume: a disability thesis on the impossibility of translating trauma

umisuzume || 海雀：http://umisuzume.love/

umisuzume transliterates to "water sparrow," but such a creature is untranslatable in english, and is known as the murrelet in that language. 

this is a thesis about translation.

this is a thesis about the impossibility of translating trauma.

though nothing is inviolate, I know there is still sacred left.

this is a thesis, and a game, about the ways in which for some of us, our lives are an endless series of violation, and the only inviolate thing is the certainty of that violation. 

but, it's also how, despite that, we find ways to live.