Artist Statement

I need to accept, reflect and let go of my past in order to heal. I need this to move forward and begin the next chapter of my life.

For a long time, I have allowed my past experiences to haunt me, manipulate my decisions and ultimately make me doubt myself.

Each link in this chain represents what I have gone through in the past, a crude link in the chain of life that I need to accept, acknowledge and let go of. I need to do this so I can move on without the chain of my past holding me down and swallowing me whole.

The chain is a veil, as my past not only conceals, distracts and distorts my own personal outlook on life, but also the perceptions of others in the world. I believe when people see me, all the see in my past, my wounds, my chain. I feel as if the real world doesn’t see who I really am, only a façade, that I have created. That needs to change. I need that to change. I need to remove the chain, remove the past and allow myself, my true self to live unveiled and free to move forward.