What  is  SheLL  Project?  She   LL   project   (she   will,   shell)   began   in   2009   and   is   an  ongoing   international   art   project   made   from   donated  dresses   of   women   and   girls   that   have   been   sexually  assaulted.   Each   participant   is   also   asked   to   submit   a  personal   statement   as   to   how   the   sexual   abuse   has   affected  them   and  this   is   exhibited   with   their   dresses.   At   each  exhibition   there   is   the   opportunity   for   new   participants   to  donate   a   dress   that   will   be   shown   in   the   next   planned  exhibition.   These   dresses   and   personal   statements   are  powerful   representations   that   evoke   healing,  prevention   and  break   stereotypes   commonly   associated   with   sexual   abuse,  assault   and   harassment.   They   stand   symbolically   for   each  woman  and  force  the  viewer  to  reflect   on   a   real   person,   a  real   story   not   a   statistic   or   “stereotypical”   image   of   a   woman  who  is  abused.   They   are   powerful   symbolic   “shells”   that  encourage   women   and   girls   from   around   the   world   to   come  forward   and   tell   their   stories.   Each   individual   woman   is   a  link   in   a   chain,   as   each   woman   comes   forward   another  woman/girl   is   strengthened.   The   goal   of   She   LL   project   is   to  travel   internationally   and   flourish   to   thousands   of   symbolic  dresses   exhibited   around   the   world.