Open, Not Broken is a series of paintings that emerged from lived experience rather than concept. These works hold moments of vulnerability, dissociation, and return — places where something might have disappeared, but didn’t. Instead of collapse, there is openness. Instead of fracture, there is presence.

The paintings are not about fixing or resolving trauma, but about staying. About being held, suspended, witnessed, or quietly tethered to life when letting go might have been easier. Gestural marks, fields of color, and moments of light suggest what remains when certainty falls away — a body still breathing, a self still here.

This series speaks to endurance without armor. To openness as strength. To the truth that surviving does not require being unmarked — only unbroken.