"Awareness" is a part of a 4-piece graduate work I did in 2017. This painting started the journey of sharing stories and working through mental health issues through art which has lasted until this day. As I grow I learn to understand better that our true strength lies not in our capacity to withstand and withhold but our capacity to be vulnerable, open and honest. Everything emotional is considered a feminine value and as a woman, growing up I looked down on feminine values because I saw it as a weakness to be emotional and vulnerable. I understand now that it's the result of a deeply patriarchal world that has lead me to believe so but as the world evolves I feel we're coming to an understanding that too much of anything doesn't work and slowly but surely we're rediscovering the deep values of the feminine which are emotional, empathetic, motherly and intensely strong in a whole different meaning of the word.
