Family is a series of socially constructed bonds that allow us to grow as humans and eventually become productive members of society. This is their basic function. They range in shapes and sizes and differ from culture to culture. Oftentimes, families inflict various traumas on individual members. Through an anthropological lens, my body of work explores the relations of family ties and the traumas that occur within the family unit and our connection to the past. Who do we come from and does that make a difference in who we become? How does intergenerational trauma affect the living? Who would we be without the trauma? These layers of “soft trauma” that occur in the domestic sphere erode and eat away at the psyche. They are subtle and not widely known to us until the moment where the compounded interest of these traumas explode and erupt from the body.