Home Base

This piece feels like it came from the pages of my mind, filled with emotions and trains of thought. The concept for this commission was to illustrate how self doubt manifests into daily life, and more importantly the strength it takes to overcome it.

The house and the “this feels familiar” text represent how challenging it can be to fight self destructive behaviours when it feels like routine. The house is an embodiment of negative but familiar feelings, and while its inviting it is not sustainable to live there.

These patterns are easy to fall into, especially if its a path you’ve taken before. Familiarity is comfortable but there is no growth in it.

There is a solution here too, the way out of this cycle is pictured on the roof of the house. The roof is detached, showing how the same walls that were once built to contain you can be taken apart as well. Nothing is set in stone forever.

All around the canvas, the multiple pathways reveal themselves the more you look for them. Its hard to form healthy habits but its possible. The subject on the top left corner is seeking a new path, looking past the calls and cries of habit and the past. Building a new home for yourself is daunting, but with patience and embracing imperfections as growth you’re halfway there already.

(Home Base, Huney, Mixed Media, 24 x 36, 2021)