the protector painting

This is my protector painting that I made while studying art therapy in graduate school. It reflects how my training as an art therapist began to help me as an artist to examine my own internal state through the art I was making. The dialogue that goes with the painting is something like the following: I hide myself away, my shoulders curl over my chest and cradle my heart in a cage. Then I feel far away, like I'm floating in my own galaxy.