They Lit Me Up

• Price: $150
• Acrylic on canvas board.
• 16x20in.
• 2025

Prints available on ETSY.

“They Lit Me Up” reflects on what it feels like when all you want is a quiet, steady life—to leave pain where it belongs, behind you, and finally breathe without the weight of what came before. But even then, the past doesn’t always stay gone.

Even without invitation, it finds its way back in, slipping through the cracks of the present. It returns again and again, as if driven by jealousy, loneliness, or its own emptiness. Nothing in the present calls it forward, nothing feeds it, and still it comes.

And so you’re left on edge, unable to fully settle into the life you’re trying so hard to build.