Sage Hughett

When I started this process I was in a lot of pain.  I was hurting from the ending of a friendship that in all actuality was with a very toxic person. Throughout my process I focused on channeling the pain, fear, and hurt that made me feel naked to the public by representing the feeling with an empty ribcage. I took a month long break from the piece and upon returning to it felt a whole new way about the situation with my friend. I felt as if losing them as a friend was necessary for me to improve as a person. I needed to be stripped down to let myself build myself up. I tried to represent this with the ribbon and needed that to wrap around the piece. In the end I hope that people can relate to my painting, not in the anguish and pain that it represents but in the rebirth and renewal.