Being creative and vulnerable is a beautiful process, but it often comes with emotional weight - it can hurt. It’s a dance of contradictions: expression and exposure, beauty and pain, freedom and fragility. Vulnerability becomes both the source of inspiration and the cost of creation.

I wanted to reflect that contradiction - how vulnerability, chaos, and healing can coexist. The figure stands in a stream of calm light while being consumed by fire, symbolizing the emotional cost of expression. The second figure is drowning, slowly consumed by the water - symbolising how artists allow themselves to be lost in the process. 

Inspired by the Polish song “Niech boli”, the painting is a visual dance between destruction and clarity, where art becomes both the wound and the cure.