This piece was made as a symbol for accepting my body. The title ‘And I Ran’ comes from a journal entry where I detail how I was supposed to get a surgery that I ended up refusing, and how I felt empowered in my decision. In this work, I used the repetitive doctors note as a motif as imagery for the part of myself that was flawed. Further, the form was inspired by artists Ruth Asawa and Magdalena Abakanowicz and their use of a flowing composition and wrinkled texture to portray breaking free.
