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Don’t Let Her Be

Limited

Acrylic on Canvas

4’ x 5’

2025

The imagery:

When I was younger, I was in love with a certain miniature figurine display in my Grandma’s collection. I would spend hours shrinking myself down, running around to explore the figurine’s grounds.

The meaning:

The figures in the windows at the back of the house (facing the viewer) may not be able to see the woman in the white dress running along the side of the house.

The figures in the window on the side of the house can easily see the woman in the white dress running in front of them. However, they may not be able to see the tree in the distance.

To see the full picture, the figures need to move, change their position, and look out of other windows to expand their perspective.

Just like the figures in the house, different factions of society see us only through certain perspectives. Rarely does any perspective envelope our reality in it’s entirety. Most view us only through limited window frames.

Those who do expand their perspective, who move throughout the house gaining more information within each new view, are rarely listened to by those who refuse to move. You can bet the figures at the back of the house are calling those on the side “crazy” because they cannot see the existence of the woman in white on the side of the house.

Those same figures on the side, may call figures at the front “delusional” when hearing about the tree in the distance. Only those who contort their body out of their window frame might catch a glimpse.

Don’t limit her by refusing to move windows. Expand your perspective. Those deficits you focus on are only one side of the whole coin. Her creativity is celebrated, yet her anxiety demonized? Both are products of her processing speed, pattern recognition, and the sheer multitude of her information uptake.

So before you criticise how she is not like you,

try seeing her through a different point of view.