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"Cleaved from Me"

"Cleaved From Me" is one of the multimedia pieces I made October through December 2022 in the immediate rebuilding of my most recent spiritual awakening/psychic expansion. I imagine I will speak more candidly about this piece in the future—particularly about the difficulty of breaking co-dependent patterns when you are quite literally empathic to the person you are currently co-dependent on—but for now I will let it live dark and uncommented upon here. It was a rough but incredible time and I am so fortunate to be a person who experienced it, as harrowing as it was in the moment.

Made of acrylic paint, collage, yellow yarn.

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