IMPRISONED BY THE SECRET

Charcoal on Paper
13″x9″
2010
Private Collection

It angered me to witness the damage and the control some childhood secrets had inflicted on myself and others that I loved and cared about.

This is a commemorative drawing for those who exercised the courage to overcome that which was stolen from them when choosing pain as their teacher and not as their master.
I learned that healing and freedom did not come by remaining silent but by empowering that silence with a voice.