Art & Healing is a space where I explore how creating art helps me process experiences that are difficult to explain with words alone. Some pieces are inspired by conversations, others by personal reflection, grief, resilience, or quiet moments of clarity. This isn’t about art as a solution or a cure: it’s about art as a place to hold emotion, tell stories with care, and honour the ways people keep going even when life shifts unexpectedly.
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Dear Imperfection
Dear Imperfection, As an artist, dealing with you comes with the territory. You show up in brushstrokes, uneven lines, colors that don’t blend the way I imagined. In art, imperfection can even be beautiful. But as a researcher, you terrify me. I think about the weight of getting things wrong. Not small mistakes — not…
Dear Words of wisdom Some of my identity was shaped not by places or people, but by words I encountered at the exact moment I needed them. These poems didn’t demand interpretation or explanation — they simply stayed. Quietly. Steadily. Long enough to become part of me. On Purpose “The two most important days in…
Dear Survival, You look like flying, but you don’t feel like freedom. This piece came from a conversation with a woman named Krishnaa. She spoke about the sheer amount of medicine and medical technology it takes to keep her alive — the supplies, the waste, the constant reminders that her survival is not effortless. Sometimes,…
Dear Impossible, You’re what people tell those with diabetes they shouldn’t try. I learned that after listening to someone describe their life — not in restrictions, but in motion. Cycling 235km in a single day. Eating freely. Living fully. Refusing to let a diagnosis become a ceiling. And yet, diabetes isn’t simple. It isn’t linear.…
Dear, Diabetes Awareness Art Series #1 This is the first piece in my Diabetes Awareness art series, and it’s called Disjointed. This piece captures a feeling I kept hearing over and over again while speaking to people living with diabetes:that sense of loss The story behind the wings Disjointed is inspired by Alexandria. Before her…
CALM? Stress flowed through me, so I decided to paint a calm scene. I think the stress still made its way into my painting in the form of big, bold strokes and hard, enyielding edges. BORN IN A MANGER This piece was in honour of Christmas, when Christ was born. Each square symbolises a part…
Creating My Autobiography 