"The piece to me shows self reflection - as many young queer people did, I grew up struggling with self image. Why was I not the same as everyone else? I always stood out as the strange kid, feeling alienated for my strong sense of self and for something else that didn't have a name to it yet.
When I reached my first year of high school, I wrote a note in which I came out to my parents and I hid it behind my mirror for safe keeping. Every time I got ready in the morning, I would see the paper tucking out from behind the wood, a reminder of identity I had not yet fully embraced staring me down, making my stomach churn.
As I slowly came out to more and more people, becoming more confident in my own skin, I feared my reflection less and less, feared facing the reality of my own situation.
The pink, blue and purple hues of the watercolour are reminiscent to that of the bisexual flag, which was how I initially identified before totally settling in to the Lesbian label."
