I use my work as an outlet of my own emotions and is one of the ways I have been able to understand the complexations of my experiences with an adverse childhood. It is a way for me to cope, and while some of my work is darker, and about trauma indicting parts of my life, I like to keep the themes subtle. I also like to reflect in the joy I was able to find in a bad situation, hoping to be a light for someone else in this dark world. This particular piece examines how I used art as a coping mechanism as a child, as it was the only thing that was mine, it let me reach beyond my limitations, and hid me from the terrors going on around me.