This painting is about a friend who suffered and survived ovarian cancer. I was in her yoga class when she described the moment she realized she needed to become her own light, and the image for this painting popped into my head. In her own words, “Do not fear a diagnosis,. It does not define you, it is not permanent. It is a flicker of a moment in your life when a hole had to be made for light to shine through, a way to expand your consciousness and human experience”.