20 x 24, Watercolor & Acrylic on Canvas

My metaphorical self portrait features the side view of a woman. Her lack of detail implies that she is any woman and every woman, including me. It reflects my current feeling of walking out of the dark, the dark being leaving Geneva to move back to New York. Ironically, one of the worst yet most defining moments of my life featured a night in Manhattan, and taking the subway from Union Square to Brooklyn. I needed eighteen months to get out of the deep state of fear I was in; the fear to socialize, the fear to be away from those close to me, the fear to be alone at night. Today, I go to Parsons, I live in Flatbush, and every single day, twice a day if not more, I slither through the Union Square Subway and feeling relieved to be back in a city I feel at home in. The subway in that way, becomes metaphorical of the phases of life I’ve traveled through. The phrase, “the next stop is…” is in reference to me starting my new life and education at Parsons, and moving on.