My Manic Mind explores a turbulent period grappling with revisited traumas, abuse, homelessness and addiction. The work in the series required significant self-reflection and retrospection in order to find redemption, rebirth, my renaissance. This was a period when I wasn’t just broken, I had been shattered into a million pieces, so many distorted fragments of a chaotic life that I could barely begin to piece them back together. And then the child I once was reached out to me, the child who would paint in his room to escape the abuse all those years ago. It was that version of me staring back at me, a window though time, asking me for help, for love, that made me realise that there was a way through, if not for the version of self that I then despised, but more for him, that child who taught me empathy, compassion, love and forgiveness.

The series first exhibited in 2023, followed by a highly attended second exhibition in 2024.