Study of Thumbprints (mural)

There’s healing in repetition. Striving for imperfection was both cathartic and the antidote. The Study of Thumbprints, no. 3 (mural), is comprised of over 20,200 gradients of my thumbprint. Symbolic in many ways, this act of repetition was an exercise in letting go–freeing myself from outcome and expectation. Looking closer, you see the detail, the inconsistencies, the variants. You are looking at an expansive self-portrait–my many iterations, day to day, year after year.

Deliberately inserting myself, this mural is a constant reminder to unapologetically take up the space I inhabit.