This collection of self-portraits, "The Source Work," documents the beginning of a crucial period of growth and represents the true, unfiltered origin of artistic exploration.

These black and white images capture an essential timeline, moving from raw self-exploration to a visual record marked by life's increasing gravity. This work is a dizzying, honest record of confronting profound loss, grief, and overwhelming anxiety, showing the subject wrestling with emotions and learning to put everything on the line. "The Source Work" is the unskipped, uncomfortable learning that paved the way for every step that followed, showing how hope can be found, even when the lights feel dim.