Steam Burn

Steam is invisible. It rises, spreads, and before you recognise it as a danger, it has already burned you. The skin reddens, blisters form, the pain is immediate — sharp, burning, inescapable. Medically, a steam burn is a thermal injury in which the moist heat penetrates deeper into the tissue than dry heat of the same temperature. That makes it treacherous: what looks harmless causes more damage beneath the surface than you expect.

But why now? Why you? And why in this way — through something you did not see coming?

The psychosomatic perspective asks an uncomfortable question: what if the steam that burns you from the outside is a mirror — for the steam that has already risen inside your inner life?