Connection to oneself shapes every other relationship. This series traces how people draw close, set boundaries, withdraw, and dissolve.

Beneath all of it lies a deeper connection, to the source of oneself. It begins the moment a person starts to hear the voice within and learns to trust it. Every other form of closeness depends on that first one.

Connection and disconnection are treated as a single spectrum rather than opposites. Each painting occupies a different point along it and asks what that position feels like from within. In some, closeness overwhelms the individual, often to the point of suffocation. In others, the subject is the control that comes with setting boundaries, and the fraught emotional process of doing so.

Informed by proto-Tibetan belief, where nothing stands apart from anything else, the boundary between self and world is left deliberately loose. The work is co-created: the artist lives it first in the making, and the viewer activates it by being present.