This work explores the mental journey of navigating one's own psyche—a labyrinthine forest of the mind. It depicts the cyclical experience of believing you have found an exit from chaos, only to discover you have arrived at another entrance to a world that is both familiar and fundamentally altered. This journey is an adventure as much as it is a meditation on personal solitude.

Visually, neon colours illuminate the roots of a tree, revealing the foundational experiences and living environment that build our unique personalities and internal authorities. The mixture and piles of colours represent the complex interactions between our personal development and the external world. What we present to the world is portrayed as a direct reflection of this inner landscape. Ultimately, the complex palette evokes a dual sensation: the feeling of being lost within the mental forest, paired with an exhilarating excitement for the unknown worlds it contains.

This painting is also a deeply personal meditation on grief and healing, born from the loss of a best friend. It reflects the long process of coming to terms with life's cyclical nature—where every apparent exit leads to another entrance. Through this, I seek to embrace the profound beauty of our limited existence. The painting captures the silent, overwhelming awe of standing alone before one's own heart, tasked with facing the fear of life in order to truly learn how to live. It is about renewal: the constant cycle of the new and the old, and the possibility of a new life beginning while we are still alive. This echoes the sentiment from Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, "death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it." I hope this work becomes an invitation to renew our minds, to find meaning not in spite of our endings, but because of them.