A figure at the edge of change—carrying history forward, facing uncertainty. This painting lives in the suspended space between a past that’s gone and a future you can’t yet see.

The gold running along the spine draws from kintsugi: repair made visible. Here it’s applied to the inner life—healing not as erasure, but as integration. The breaks become part of the map.

She doesn’t know what’s beyond the door. Not a triumphant new chapter—just the vulnerable act of standing at the threshold.