I believe each person has a true self that tends to get covered up through the years as we put on garments and hardened armor to protect our tenderness, to keep us “safe”. But while those protective coverings may serve us for a while, they eventually become too constricting and they start to come apart whenever we encounter intense life events.

The shroud falls away when we are ready to show up fully, embracing the Beauty in our vulnerabilities.
 
This body of work seeks to
embody the tenderness and softness that is revealed when we shed
the layers that have come to veil our truest essence. 

You can read The Shattering/The Becoming Poetry here.