🌀Crafted over months. Reconstructed countless times. This piece did not arrive by force. Initiated through an honest— and, somewhat paradoxically, delicate—invitation. It asserted its own becoming through refusal. It broke into being by defying every attempt at control. Refusal to settle. Refusal to be rushed. Refusal to be impressed upon. Refusal to mirror what came prior. Refusal to be shaped by anything outside of itself. … 1/3