Ode to all of the things I did not want to see

We sometimes have the tendency to store the stuff we don't want to
deal with in the back of the closet. We close our eyes to them and label
them as being too painful, too embarrassing, they just don't fit in with
our ideal of what the 'perfect me' should look like.

I spent most of this year venturing forth into the proverbial, belly of
the beast. Or what I previously thought of as my 'dark side'. And what
I discovered there at the back of the closet was that was that many of
them weren't demons at all, but beautiful undiscovered and disowned
parts of myself. These are the really 'juicy' bits of our personality, so we
might as well polish them up and put them on display.

This painting is a little tribute to my journey this past year.