oil on canvas, 36 × 18, 2026

Revisiting the artist’s deeply affectionate bond with her mother in childhood, the painting reveals the emotional traces that this early relationship left within her inner world. The upward movement of the white birds echoes the child’s heightened emotional state, symbolically expressing the vitality and inner expansiveness shaped by experiences of love and closeness. In this way, the painting suggests that such formative relationships do not remain only as distant memories, but continue to persist within the self as emotional traces that shape feeling, memory, and one’s evolving sense of identity.