“This IS Vulnerability Liberated! Do you feel a little uncomfortable when looking at her? That's because she isn't "typically beautiful". I wanted to push myself further, dig deeper and create something that I would find beautiful, but perhaps not in a traditional sense. To create something not to please myself or anyone else but rather to paint exactly what I was feeling at the time. Worry, sadness, frustration, excitement, stress, ugliness. She's messy; she's been scraped numerous times and re-layered. She's bright, and she's dark. She's full of emotion. She's raw. She's REAL.”