Deep Cut

“There comes a time we realise we’re cut in ways we never let ourselves believe. Somehow it’s freeing yet gives everyone a reason to leave.”

Some realisations arrive without warning, cutting through the versions of ourselves we thought we understood. This painting holds that moment of recognition, where the weight of past experiences begins to surface all at once. Inspired by personal hardship, it reflects the ache of being shaped by absence, by people who leave, by the quiet expectation that they might. There is a strange stillness in accepting what has always been there, even when it hurts to see it clearly.