Survivors of violence against women painted what so many can't bring themselves to say Sunday at Minto Park.
The Clothesline Project supported the end of violence against women, particularly sexual assault.
Women and children who had experienced violence wrote their stories and messages about their experiences on t-shirts, which they then hung up on clotheslines.
Organizer Margery Anne Wardle said that sharing their stories through art can help others, as well as the person doing the designing.
"It can also be very uplifting, very encouraging, very hopeful, very bright even," she said. "It depends where the individual is in their particular process of recovery."
Over 80 per cent of women who are sexually assaulted don't report it to police, according to a fact sheet from the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre.
There have been over 250 Clothesline Projects internationally, with shirts decorated representing more than 35,000 survivors.
With a report from CTV's Katie Griffin
