The Vessel of Ongoing Optimism, 53 x 9 x 18 cm, 2021
“I can count my friends on one hand, the ones that I confide in, that I feel good with and that I can be my true self with. But that desperation to be popular, to be liked and to be wanted remains within me.Even though I am satisfied with the friends I have, I carry on looking at those laughing people drinking coffee together, going on holidays together and being part of a gang together and I remember at school how alone and lonely I was and how I hoped someone would want to be my friend. But it didn’t happen but that didn’t stop me.”