The exhibition is the result of a process of finding my way back from burnout. It traces a journey from nervous collapse and anxiety toward examining emotions and, ultimately, accepting the need to let go. Emotions can hit so hard that the body responds with tangible pain, but sometimes they simply need to be allowed to wash over us like waves. When anxiety arose, I became so stuck in asking “why?” that I locked it away and intensified it, instead of allowing it to pass through me. Whenever I think about this, a line from the film Elizabethtown comes to mind: “You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery, embrace it, discard it and proceed.” In the artistic process itself, I moved from two-dimensional work into three-dimensional form and then back again into two dimensions. The process was deeply healing, as it began in my sketchbook, with no real sense of where it would lead, and gradually became a visual interpretation of my state of mind. From that imagery, I decided t...