This piece depicts the silhouette of a human head—featureless—filled with layers of dark, turbulent color. It embodies the state of my inner world during a season of confusion, pain, and immense suffering.

After surviving brain cancer, my body was transformed by treatment’s side effects—slim and familiar became swollen and unrecognizable. I felt lost, unsure of who I was or why I existed. I dreaded looking in the mirror. The collision of external expectations and internal wounds blurred my identity and dimmed any sense of purpose.

Rather than offering answers, this painting asks the questions I faced: Who am I? What