detachment is the key to loosen up. An unfamiliar energy form accompanied me for nine months—an intense, dissonant force that ultimately propelled me into a higher state of consciousness. This body of work was born from a confrontation with a dark and foreign presence, a black hole of energy that felt completely disconnected from my usual space of creation. It was not mine. It was not where I naturally dwell or create.

And yet, the work demanded to be made. Some might say this series carries a message—that I served merely as the vessel through which it could be visualized. The dark renegade was not my handwriting, and still, it insisted on being seen. It asked to be acknowledged and accepted.

Through this encounter, I came to understand my inner strength—not as resistance, which I have always carried, but as endurance. I had to withstand this unfamiliar, almost intrusive energy. It invaded my creative space until I made an active, conscious decision to intervene. I began to add white—to introduce light into the black, to reclaim the canvas, to choose responsibility over surrender.

In June, with the final brushstroke complete, I felt a wave of liberation. Twenty-eight pieces had come alive during this time. But even as this cycle approached its end—in May, around Pentecost—a new portfolio took shape: The Awakening 1.0, which once again fully introduced my creative space and its energy.