her latest work now hanging in a new york gallery depicts people who also had a tdi. >> this is a girla baby. >> reporter: her process mirrors traumatic brain injury. first, a charcoal rendering of her subject. th then, she cuts the work into pieces. >> here i have something that is beautiful and whole, and by putting it and taking scissors to it, i feel like i'm reinflicting the traumatic injure toy the person. >> reporter: the next process, reassembling the image. >> a parallel for traumatic brain injury, fractured, reassembled and whole. it shows all the scars that we have as a, survivors of traumatic brain injury. whether they're emotional, physical, cognitive. they're all part of that reassembled portrait. >> reporter: the result is larger than life portraits of people who, like she, intensively rehabilitated both body and spirit and overcame. >> there is hope that you know -- do not of lose hope. you will recover. you will do something with yourself. it's long, it's painful, but there is hope. >>> and it's worth pointing out as well, her exhibition will be displayed at art galler