“Light and Liminal” emerged during my cancer diagnosis, treatment, and the long, unsteady journey of finding my footing again. Painting became a way to stay present while everything around me felt suspended—a place between what was known and what was still unfolding. The word liminal refers to that threshold space, the in-between where transformation begins before it’s visible, where you are no longer who you were and not yet who you will become. In these paintings, I followed the shifts of light that cut through uncertainty, illuminating corners I hadn’t expected to see. Each piece holds a quiet reckoning with fragility and resilience, shaped in the glow of moments when the world felt both tenuous and profoundly alive. “Light and Liminal” is the story of learning to stand inside that threshold and trust the light that kept returning.