Where It Hurts To Hold: The Weight of Self Compassion

Where it Hurts To Hold: The Weight of Self Compassion

2025

A resin torso, bronzed in finish, clutches its own breast—part protection, part grief—as flowers bloom from one side while the other remains stark and shadowed. By contrasting darkness with blooming detail, the piece honours complexity: the coexistence of beauty and burden, tenderness and survival. The gesture of self-touch is both physical and emotional, inviting reflection on embodiment, vulnerability, and mental struggle. Where It Hurts to Hold is a meditation on the weight of self-compassion—on the private, difficult act of holding oneself through pain, and the quiet strength it takes to grow anyway.