Mauerbauertraurigkeit

  • 2024 Won the Silver Key of Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

  • Sep 2023 the painting was selected to attend London WORDSEE International Children’s Art Biennale” Healing Through Love.

  •  Dec 2023 the painting was selected to attend NY Nassau County Museum of Art WORDSEE International Children’s Art Biennale” Healing Through Love "

This word translates to the “ inexplicable urge to push close people away, even the ones we love.” I find a hard time opening to people, even my family because I have a fear of abandonment. I feared that if I were to tell people my true feelings, I would be considered weak, and people would leave me because of it. This girl symbolizes my inexplicable internal feelings; someone who is trying to cut people off even though she knows is going to be all alone and suffer without the hand pulling me above water to live. Her being in water is like me being secluded in avoidance and loneliness, both drowning into the emotional darkness. Yet hoping that somebody would still come to save me from self-sabotaging even more...
— Bonnie