I've been away for a while, and now that I'm back, I find myself connecting a lot with portraits, feeling deeply drawn to them, so that's what I'll be exploring with my work. And it fits perfectly with this, which was actually the third portrait of this new path. I chose Rumi, first, because I loved the film. KPDH is incredible, right? For Rumi, I didn't want a "happy" or "powerful" expression because the moment I suffered with her was when she says, "Why couldn't you love me? All of me." That line is so sad, so real, and that's why it hits so hard, especially when you understand that kind of pain. I want a bit of that. The portrait is of the moment when she returns to the stadium and reunites with Zoey and Mira, the moment when she truly says "enough." She's not angry, she just wants to see what she can do if she leaves her ties behind.
