My piece is part of a continuous series of paintings, videos, and sculptures that represent an external object or visual imagery of different forms of pain.

This ongoing series aims to express internal repressed emotions of pain towards something people can relate to and that I can use as a form of visual healing. This piece represents the pain of separation. This object takes different forms of separation that have manifested in my life, such as the separation from my home country, separation from my family, and the separation of my parents. This intrusive and somewhat dangerous object is meant to be in your way, like how nostalgia and the feeling of physically being separated are intrusive and difficult to overcome.

The choice of colors in this piece serves as a way of them being separated from one another to emphasize the feeling of pain. An important part of this piece was the process of making it, one aspect being how each layer of plaster served as a way of projecting the repression and how easy it became to hide it from others and myself. Another important part of the process was how hard it was to navigate the spikes without getting hurt which I took as my inner self and inner child telling me that separation is prevalent and still alive in my life.