Becoming

Acrylic on paper.

18x24"

This self-portrait lives in that in-between space.

It’s about great change.

About resilience.

About trusting the promise of something brighter on the other side — even when I can’t fully see it yet.

I keep returning to the image of a caterpillar in transformation. How, in order to become something new, its insides must completely liquify — dissolving into what is essentially a soup — before reforming into something with wings.

That process isn’t pretty.

It isn’t comfortable.

And from the outside, it probably looks like destruction.

But it’s not.

It’s becoming.

And so this portrait is a reminder — to myself first — that even when everything feels undone, something is still forming.