I made this piece a couple of years ago, at a time when i was really brokenhearted. It was a bad relationship i should never had gotten into but by the time it ended it had become this huge thing in my life, and letting go rarely comes easy to me, so i started working on this as a way to put it behind me once it was finished. It kinda worked actually. The piece itself is composed of pencil drawings (the girl in question and the boxes surrounding her), pencil drawn over photographs (the wall background and the tree), digital photographs (the cages at the bottom), scanned imagery (the dragonfly wings), ripped carboard and acrylic-splattered gold leaf applied over hand-made amate paper. Finally everything was brought together in photoshop.