I chose to use sketching for the first painting since the monochrome colors would be able to convey the sombre tones better. The painting depicts a young girl who’s world has just fallen apart, exploding behind her in the form of the window. Scattered across the room lie many items that have led up to this moment: a divorce paper, her mother’s high heels, schoolbooks, a broken and vandalized portrait of her once-happy family, and an empty wine bottle. In the center of the room, the girl clutches onto a teddy bear from her childhood, a time where everything was okay. The windows I designed to be disproportionately bigger to give off a sense of the girl curling up to become as small as possible.