This piece is an illustrative enamel brooch protected by aluminum plates, which show the painting through web-like piercings. This was part of my capstone body of work in undergrad, a group of narrative brooches. The story was about how my relationship between my body and my practice changed throughout school, and habits I developed in order to maintain dedication to my program. I fabricated this piece completely by hand. The shape of the aluminum frame comes from a meditative drawing exercise I used to do when I was going through some medical and family-related struggles, to try to transition thoughtfully into a focused creative mindset and make the most of what time and energy I had for schoolwork. The imagery is of my view when I was closing the studio after a long day. In my freshman year, I would wake up nauseous and in a lot of pain. It would take everything in me just to show up to class, then I would go home, eat, sleep and try to recover for a few hours. I would wake up sometime between 6pm and 10pm and return to the studios since my symptoms were more bearable at night I didn't have to deal with the feeling of being overwhelmed by all the people that would be around during the day.