


"Inspiration from Injury"
Acrylic on 11x16 paper
I created this not long after my brain injury—
during nights when I couldn’t sleep.
The nightmares, the panic attacks, the fog… they were constant.
But inside all the frustration and grief,
something else was blooming.
The shape on the left began as the line of my scar.
I followed it—and a bouquet emerged.
This painting holds the duality of healing:
the anger and the growth,
the limitations and the expansion,
the stillness and the soul-level transformation.
It’s messy. Raw.
And also peaceful.
Acrylic on 11x16 paper
I created this not long after my brain injury—
during nights when I couldn’t sleep.
The nightmares, the panic attacks, the fog… they were constant.
But inside all the frustration and grief,
something else was blooming.
The shape on the left began as the line of my scar.
I followed it—and a bouquet emerged.
This painting holds the duality of healing:
the anger and the growth,
the limitations and the expansion,
the stillness and the soul-level transformation.
It’s messy. Raw.
And also peaceful.
Acrylic on 11x16 paper
I created this not long after my brain injury—
during nights when I couldn’t sleep.
The nightmares, the panic attacks, the fog… they were constant.
But inside all the frustration and grief,
something else was blooming.
The shape on the left began as the line of my scar.
I followed it—and a bouquet emerged.
This painting holds the duality of healing:
the anger and the growth,
the limitations and the expansion,
the stillness and the soul-level transformation.
It’s messy. Raw.
And also peaceful.